Kalighat Art
Kalighat Painting by Uttam Chitrakar
Buy Kalighat
Kalighat Art
Kalighat Painting by Uttam Chitrakar
Buy Kalighat

Maa Lakshmi Kalighat Painting by Uttam Chitrakar


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Size : Small
Dimensions : H: 1.8(ft) by W: 1.2(ft) | H: 22(in) by W: 14(in)
Medium : Natural Colors on Paper

About the Artwork +

Lakshmi, also spelled Lakṣmī, also called Shri, Hindu goddess of wealth and good fortune. The wife of Vishnu, she is said to have taken different forms in order to be with him in each of his incarnations. In the most widely received account of Lakshmi’s birth, she rose from the churning of the ocean of milk (an important event in Hinduism), seated on a lotus and holding another blossom in her hand.But in this painting, we can see that she is accompanied by her vahana, the owl. This type of painting is called an Oreintal painting as the subject matter comes from Hindu mythology. 

DETAILS

  • Size: 22"× 14" inch
  • Price is for unframed painting and painting would be sent without a frame

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All artworks on the website are hand painted from scratch by our master artists. That makes every artwork absolutely unique and the actual colour and overall artwork may vary slightly from the artwork image posted here.


Artist


Uttam Chitrakar

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Art Form

Kalighat

The Kalighat paintings developed in the 19th century in the Bengal presidency. The travelling scroll painters or the patuas had been practising folk art of Pattachitra. The new manners and customs of the British settlers, the revivalist exercises of the Mughal and theatres as well as the use of Sanskrit on stage was absorbed by the rural artists who had migrated to Calcutta and developed it into a popular urban genre. The period of Kalighat paintings coincides with the age of mechanical reproduction in the form of woodcut, lithography, oleography and printing. These developments had caused mass consumption of imagery in the urban cities and Kalighat was a response to it. The Kalighat painters interacted with the colonial paintings and began the use of water colours, shaded figures, folio-sized mill made papers. They absorbed the role of the western theatre performances and the art schools which developed the unique stylistic features of the Kalighat paintings as we know them today. More here on our blog.



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