Hindu Floor Paintings

Oct 13 2019 excited to share this item from my etsy shop.

Hindu floor paintings.

Kathy cooper floorcloths depict whimsical graphic images in rich wonderful colors. It is usually made during diwali or tihar onam pongal and other hindu festivals in the indian subcontinent designs are passed from one generation to the next keeping both the art form and. Social studies and history. Floorcloths are paintings crafted into rugs.

Painting on canvas of a hindu temple with a charming naive style and vibrant colors reminiscent of indian textiles. Hindu floor painting hindu floor painting. In hindu theology it has been used to represent the universe. A kolam is a geometrical line drawing.

Create new folder. Kolam is a form of drawing that is drawn by using rice flour chalk chalk powder or rock powder often using naturally or synthetically colored powders in sri lanka the indian states of tamil nadu karnataka telangana andhra pradesh kerala and some parts of goa maharashtra as well as indonesia malaysia thailand and a few other asian countries. In this art activity students use common materials to imitate hindu floor paintings. Rangoli is an indian traditional or folk art which is generally created on the floor on some festive occasions.

K 1 2. The indian scriptures and puranas hindu mythological literature works can be attributed for the emergence of this creative rangoli art. Whatever the original meaning of the word alpona it seems highly probable that it is an accident word sanskritised in recent years which in turn indicates that the practice of such floor paintings might be older than anticipated. A good marriage of art and craft.

Floorcloths are one of the earliest forms of floorcoverings attaining great popularity in england in the 1700 s. Most of the scholars agree that the word and the practice of floor painting proceed the vedic age. The universe is the medium they believed through which the divine presents itself. Painting an element of the sundaram of the tripartite description of hinduism as satyam shivam sundaram which means aesthetics lends the hindu religion with much needed insight and expression.

The hindu dharma has been a distinguished example of the latter what with painting offering the dharmic texts more than mere illustration. Signed in the lower right h cole and titled pink palace 1980. 18 the mystery of indian floor paintings the most commonly used motif like the circle and the square have symbolic meanings.