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Transformat ion of Mithila by Madhubani/Mithila Painting

History:-

 its heritage goes back at least 2,500 years and its celebrated figures include the Buddha and Mahavira. It is
also the birthplace of Sita, the central character in Ramayana.
 Even though this art is centuries old, it has preserved its original style and content in its native land of
Mithila.
 The paintings are traditionally based on mythological, folk themes and pastoral symbols.
 The central themes of most paintings are birth, love, marriage, devotion, and cycle of life.
 So it is common to find scenes of courtship and marriages and symbols of fertility and prosperity like fish,
parrot, elephant, turtle, sun, moon, bamboo tree, lotus, etc. in prominence.
 Nowadays synthetic colors are used but traditional artists still make their own colours by extracting them
from plants. The coloring is of two styles – Kachni (hatching) and Bharni (shading.)
1. Kachni uses delicate fine lines to fill the painting and not much colour is used.
2. Bharni (shading) uses solid colours to shade and fill the pictures.

About:-
 Madhubani, or Mithila, painting is a folk painting of northern Bihar (Mithila Region) and in the
Mithila state of Nepal.
 It is mostly practiced in the villages with fingers, brushes, nib-pens, and matchsticks, using natural
dyes and pigments, and is characterized by eye-catching geometrical patterns
 They paint pictures of nature and mythology to depict different events like birth, marriage, and
cycles of life.
 The paintings depicted an assembly of symbolic images of the lotus plant, the bamboo grove,
fishes, birds and snakes in union. These images represented fertility and proliferation of life.

Success:-
 Baua Devi (from Jitwarpur of Madhubani District) won the National Award (1984) and
 received the Padma Shri (2017) by Hon. President - shri Pranab Mukhrjee.
 Recently, the Madhubani Railway Station has registered as global presence in terms of its beauty.
Bihar Linked trains like Rajdhani and Sampark Kranti etc, and Many cities of Bihar... are well decorated with
Mithila/Madhubani painting.
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