[Reader-list] Patta Chitra Katha?

[Kath O'Donnell]

thanks very much Prem and to everyone else who has replied onlist &
offlist. I've been compiling your info to my blog @
http://www.aliak.com/content/patta-chitra-katha-traditional-folk-art-storytelling-using-visual-language
so I can keep track of it and find out more.

it's just so interesting. I'm glad to hear that the artform is still
being practiced, though it's a shame they're not using the traditional
methods. I guess everything changes eventually. I hope the original
techniques are not lost completely.

when I was in Delhi in 2006 I bought a small painting from dilli haat
but it was on paper & I've seen the miniature paintings at the art
gallery but I didn't understand or make the 'link' to this artform
(perhaps they're different in anycase as I'm not sure where the
artists were based & sometimes I don't hear what they say properly)

it would be interesting to try paint some on cloth with home made
vegetable paints (if I can work out how to make paint out of veges :)

it's interesting to see the more modern stories painted by artists &
read about them on the indigoarts site. (but I notice it's a US site?
so hopefully the artists benefit as they should - in Australia there
have been problems with galleries selling indigenous artists works and
the artists not being rewarded)

thanks again to everyone!
cheers
kath



2008/11/16 Prem Chandavarkar <prem.cnt at gmail.com>:
> On the route from Bhubaneswar to Puri, just a little before you reach Puri,
> is a turning toward a village called Raghurajpur.  There is a sign at the
> highway marking this turn, which identifies Raghurajpur as a "heritage
> village".  This village is full of craftsmen from the tradition of patta
> chitra katha; and if you go there they will allow you into their homes and
> seek to sell you their wares.  They are also quite willing to talk about and
> demonstrate their craft (unless you are fluent in the language, you will
> need an Oriya interpreter).
>
> However, one should be warned that the craft has not remained within the
> traditional idiom.  Firstly the work now is more on paper than on cloth.
> Secondly they use chemical pigments rather than the traditional vegetable
> pigments; as a result of which the colours are far more garish.  However, if
> you are patient and willing to spend some time going from house to house,
> you will come across some pieces of spectacular work.  You will also come
> across a few old pieces on cloth done using vegetable pigments.
>
> Regards,
> Prem
>
> 2008/11/16 Kath O'Donnell <aliak77 at gmail.com>
>>
>> hi, would anyone here know of any info about Patta Chitra Katha? I
>> just saw a video which is apparently based on this ancient technique :
>> http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=43962506411
>> is this still being practiced or are there any studies on it?
>>
>> via google I've found the links collected here :
>>
>> http://www.aliak.com/content/patta-chitra-katha-traditional-folk-art-storytelling-using-visual-language
>>
>> I'll keep searching, but I thought perhaps someone on this list might
>> have come across it. does Chitra Katha mean Flim Contest?
>> thanks in advance
>> kath
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