New Exhibition To Promote Folk And Tribal Art Paintings

With the aim of promoting the folk and tribal art, Textiles Secretary Upendra Prasad Singh has opened an international exhibition on folk and tribal art paintings “Reetiyon se Kalakritiyon ka Safar” at National Crafts Museum and Hastkala Academy in New Delhi.

It is organised by office of development commissioner, handicrafts in collaboration with Odi Art Centre.

There are about 125 folk and tribal paintings of seven countries — India 102, South Korea 8, Indonesia 1, Myanmar 2, Sri Lanka 2, Bangladesh 3 and Nepal 7 on display.

Beginning from 18 August , the special exhibition would continue until 3 September 2021. It has been curated by the National Crafts Museum and Hastkala Academy in collaboration with Odi Art Centre.

Singh said that such exhibitions encourage the artists and enable art lovers to view and enjoy various forms of art under one roof.

He said that Indian handicrafts are very popular, and to promote it government has set up office of development commissioner, handicrafts, which works for the promotion of artisans by organising handicrafts expos, exhibitions to showcase the products made by cluster artisans across the country and award functions for their felicitation thereby recognising their exquisite art.

The age-old traditions of decorating walls (Bhitti Chitra) convey the experience of nature and local traditions of different communities. Folk and Tribal paintings in diverse forms took the shape of kalakriya.

Such art has unique characters and features which shows the diversification in art form and have been a part of living traditions ever since. Therefore, this allowed the people to look into the past lifestyle of the time when the same was in practice.

The lineage of decorating walls and floors is continuing even till date. Nowadays, these art forms have shifted on to different materials and canvases to reach out the masses and increase the feasibility globally.

The display has been branched out in a village theme to the categories of geography, ceremonial, nature, folktales, society and religion. The exquisite art works have been preserved in the museum collection which is an inspiration for the present and future artists.