Art Historian* 🇮🇳
Art Historian* 🇮🇳

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5 Tweets 2 reads Jan 26, 2023
Folk & tribal art during the deadly pendamic in India
- Migration In The Time Of Covid’, a Phad painting by Kalyan Joshi. The numerous panels depict the plight of migrant workers who had to undertake long and arduous journeys back to their home-towns.
📸courtesy Minhazz Majumdar
Detail from the ‘Covid Scroll’ by Sonia Chitrakar, a young Pattachitra artist from West Bengal.
📸courtesy: Minhazz Majumdar
Covid’, by Gond artist Mahesh Shyam, is layered with observations of migrant workers falling by the wayside—and the ecological imbalance that faces society today.
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📸 courtesy: Minhazz Majumdar
Pattachitra artist Apindra Swain’s works, such as this one showing a woman at the washbasin, are imbued with a sense of whimsy.
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📸courtesy: Minhazz Majumdar
‘Stay Home’, by Apindra Swain, features the ornate borders typical of the Pattachitra style but instead of depicting gods and goddesses, it features front-line workers.
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📸courtesy: Minhazz Majumdar

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