Painting · West India
Warli: The Stick-Figure Stories of the North Sahyadris
White rice paste on red earth: the Warli tribe's spare, geometric murals turn farming, weddings and worship into a visual language anyone can read.
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Madhubani, Pattachitra, Warli — stories painted by hand.
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Painting · East India
Pattachitra: The Cloth Paintings of Raghurajpur
In a village where every house is a workshop, the hereditary painters of Raghurajpur still tell the stories of Jagannath on cloth prepared with tamarind and chalk.
Painting · East India
Madhubani: The Painted Walls of Mithila
From the mud walls of Mithila to museums in Japan, Madhubani painting is a women's art of gods, fish, and weddings that has survived two and a half millennia by never leaving home.