15-02-2021 | 15:50 PM
Pattachitra Art
• The Prime Minister of India applauded a girl from Odisha who mastered the art of creating Pattachitra on various themes using the soft stones.
• Pattachitra or Patachitra term commonly used for traditional, cloth-based scroll paintings.
• The style of art is based in the states of Odisha and West Bengal.
• The art form is renowned for its elaborate descriptions and the mythological myths and folktales inscribed in it.
• The literal meaning of the word “Pajtta” is “cloth” and “Chitra” means “picture” in Sanskrit.
• The colours used in the Paintings are natural and the paintings are made in an old traditional way by Chitrakaras (Odiya Painter).
