With the advent of human civilization, one of the first art forms to evolve was perhaps producing clay pots, figurines and toys. India was no exception to this and if anything this art for highly evolved as evidenced from the discovery of pottery items from the Indus Valley civilization sites like Mohanjodaro and Harrappa. Indian art can broadly be classified into two distinct groups : Red Clay Pottery (Including Terracotta) – eg. Builder’s brick, roofing tiles, utility items like urns, kulhars, surahi etc.    Whiteware Pottery – Cups, saucer’s, mugs, tea pots, jars, decorat ..read more

Pattachitra or Patachitra is made of two Sanskrit words Patta which means cloth and Chitra meaning picture. It is a form of traditional painting which is mainly done in Indian States of Odisha and West Bengal. The process of creating art is a labor of love and completely done by hand including creating the canvas and colors. The GI tags are also registered differently for both the states. Pattachitra of Odisha is registered as Orissa Pattachitra while that of West Bengal is registered as Bengal Patachitra. In this blog we try to c ..read more