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Pradeep Kumar

19/08/21 12:50 PM IST

Reetiyon se Kalakritiyon ka Safar

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Shri Upendra Prasad Singh inaugurates an International Exhibition on Folk & Tribal Art Paintings “Reetiyon se Kalakritiyon ka Safar”

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  • 125 Folk and Tribal Paintings of 7 countries- India - 102, South Korea - 8, Indonesia - 1, Myanmar - 2, Sri Lanka - 2, Bangladesh - 3 and Nepal - 7 are on display.
  • This special exhibition (from 18th August to 3rd September) has been curated by the National Crafts Museum & Hastkala Academy, New Delhi, in collaboration with Odi Art Centre.
  • Such exhibitions encourage the artists and enable the art lovers to view and enjoy various forms of art at one place.
  • The age-old traditions of decorating walls (BhittiChitra) convey the experience of nature and local traditions of different communities.
  • Folk and Tribal paintings in diverse forms took the shape of kalakrtiyan.
  • 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 practise.
Source: PIB

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