Santhal painting

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1. SANTHAL PAINTING BHAVANA PATIL

2. WHAT IS SANTHAL PAINTING? The Santhal folk painting, drawn by the Santhal tribes living in Bengal, is a folk art with a distinctive style of their own. Here we see paintings where the tribes are in musical procession or illustration of other simple themes like harvest, family life, and rituals of their life

3. HOW ARE SANTHAL PAINTINGS MADE AND ON WHAT MATERIAL IT IS MADE? The Santhals paint in Pata or cloth. These then form the scrolls which unfurl to tell a story. They take the paintings from village to village not to sell their paintings but to get money in form of donations by singing songs based on the stories. These songs are known as Pater Gaan .

4. DID YOU KNOW ? Santhals earlier used natural colours which were prepared from various leaves and flowers. But now they have started painting with synthetic paints on paper in small and medium-size scrolls created by stitching two sheets of paper together. This Photo by Unknown author is licensed under CC BY-NC .

5. DID YOU KNOW? The Santhals are a tribe spread over the region of present day Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal states of the Indian subcontinent. Like any other tribe the Santals have an exclusive artistic perception rooted in their cultural traditions and physical environs.

6. SANTHAL PAINTING

7. This Photo by Unknown author is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND .