Beautiful Timeless Art: Kalamkari Painting
Kalamkari painting is a beautiful art form of Andhra Pradesh. Kalamkari is a type of hand-painted or block-printed cotton textile. It is more than just being a fabric used for clothing or home. It is more than textiles to an experience that culture has witnessed over centuries. This textile is supposed to be a multi-colored fabric in one of its rarest forms. Kalamkari is known to be a healing fabric, as the colours, motifs and the narration of magical forms create an aura that heals an individual physically and spiritually. Only natural dyes are used in Kalamkari, which is an ancient style of hand painting done on cotton or silk fabric with a tamarind pen. Today a stylish range of home décor products made with Kalamkari is available, namely, wall hangings, bedcovers, cushion covers, even rugs and theater backdrops, besides beautiful saris, dress materials, and stoles. The research paper is of exploratory nature. there are a very few literatures available on the history and evolution of kalamkari, there is very little information available on the current situation. Thus, the exploratory method was chosen to write the timeless beauty of traditional painting kalamkari. This research paper was started with the style, colours and techniques with the idea of bringing about innovation in Todays Kalamkari.
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Keywords: Kalamkari Fine Art
Publisher: Salar Jung Museum, Hyderabad
Description: Large sized painted Kalamkari textile depicting a scene from Vaikuntha. The divine court of Vishnu surrounded by gods, angels and sagas set against brick red background, the central panel shows a pavilion in which Vishnu is seated on Sesha with Sridevi and Bhudevi on either side. The pavilion is flanked by Jaya and Vijaya, the two dwarapalas. Eighteen dancing girls are shown to the extreme right of Vishnu along with Seven Saints and twelve devotes in a row at bottom, seven birds and animals, real and mythical are shown in front of devotes. The serpent is flanked by five gods including Shiva and flying angels. The pavilion has five sikharas holding two flags against the refinement studied with stars, moon and sun. The whole scene is framed in a border filled with stylised parrots. All the sikharas pavilions, birds, animals, figures of gods Engels, Saints (Rishis) etc. are in white except the other nine figures in which the two colours used are -ivory white and brick red. The Seven Saints are shown in profile, while the rest of the figures are frontal.
Type: Kalamkari
Received From: Salar Jung Museum
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Large sized painted Kalamkari textile depicting a scene from Vaikuntha. The divine court of Vishnu surrounded by gods, angels and sagas set against brick red background, the central panel shows a pavilion in which Vishnu is seated on Sesha with Sridevi and Bhudevi on either side. The pavilion is flanked by Jaya and Vijaya, the two dwarapalas. Eighteen dancing girls are shown to the extreme ...
The research paper is of exploratory nature. there are a very few literatures available on the history and evolution of kalamkari, there is very little information available on the current situation.