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POT Maya (PATA-CHITRA) festival- 14th to 16th NOV 2014, Pingla
Final day festival visit at Pingla became fruitful for Sourav Ghosh and me ...... after 62 km bike journey from Midnapur we rached there in the afternoon ...its really a heaven for the photographers ..colorful festival, colorful people, lots of activities, art-works ....u have all sorts of masalas to create ur frame .....but missed many things this year for visiting only the final day :( the 3 day village festival started from 14th nov,2014......one spcl thing was observed that maximum Muslim artists were drawing the pictures of POuRANIK Hindu god/goddess ...it proves that ART HAS NO BOUNDARY OF RELIGION......but the concern is that from last year the art house no has decreased from 72 to 60 ...in last 5 years (as the festival started from 2010) the area of art houses has decreased by 33% (starting year the no was above 90) due to peoples less interest, not getting enough buyers to sell the pata-chitra kala...but government has taken initiatives to promote this art works in different cities and countries though its not enough... many of the artists are being diverted to other jobs like farming, fishing etc. .... now mostly the house wives of the families are carrying the ART-TRADITION.
The pata-chitra drawing art started from British time in Kolkata in a very different way ...mostly 110 years ago near the kalighat area of kolkata ...now known as potua para ... those pata-chitra are mainly cartoonist version of the BABU CULTURE at that time in Kolkata ...BABU like people came to the red light areas around kalighat mandir area ...now the no has decreased to only 5 lanes of houses for prostitution activity and only the kalighat side engaged in this ..the other side has totally vanished (along the patua para gali) ....the artists of patua para used to draw in the pages (PATA) highlighting the bad habits of those BABUs ... now only one family left there to draw the PATA-CHITRA there .... they are now drawing some assignment for marriage invitation cards ....fortunately or unfortunately foreigners sometimes come to the artist to buy the BABu culture PATACHITRA :) ;) due to gradual decreasing demand of this art all the artists of patua para became expertise in CLAY-MODELLING ART (Hindu GOD/GODDESS) forgetting the pATA-CHITRA TRADITIONAL ART...
for more snaps of the Final day festival visit my page Shuvarthy Chowdhury Photography in FB
for any farther information
contact no-9163878100
mail id- shuvarthychowdhury.photography@gmail.com
POT Maya (PATA-CHITRA) festival- 14th to 16th NOV 2014, Pingla
Final day festival visit at Pingla became fruitful for Sourav Ghosh and me ...... after 62 km bike journey from Midnapur we rached there in the afternoon ...its really a heaven for the photographers ..colorful festival, colorful people, lots of activities, art-works ....u have all sorts of masalas to create ur frame .....but missed many things this year for visiting only the final day :( the 3 day village festival started from 14th nov,2014......one spcl thing was observed that maximum Muslim artists were drawing the pictures of POuRANIK Hindu god/goddess ...it proves that ART HAS NO BOUNDARY OF RELIGION......but the concern is that from last year the art house no has decreased from 72 to 60 ...in last 5 years (as the festival started from 2010) the area of art houses has decreased by 33% (starting year the no was above 90) due to peoples less interest, not getting enough buyers to sell the pata-chitra kala...but government has taken initiatives to promote this art works in different cities and countries though its not enough... many of the artists are being diverted to other jobs like farming, fishing etc. .... now mostly the house wives of the families are carrying the ART-TRADITION.
The pata-chitra drawing art started from British time in Kolkata in a very different way ...mostly 110 years ago near the kalighat area of kolkata ...now known as potua para ... those pata-chitra are mainly cartoonist version of the BABU CULTURE at that time in Kolkata ...BABU like people came to the red light areas around kalighat mandir area ...now the no has decreased to only 5 lanes of houses for prostitution activity and only the kalighat side engaged in this ..the other side has totally vanished (along the patua para gali) ....the artists of patua para used to draw in the pages (PATA) highlighting the bad habits of those BABUs ... now only one family left there to draw the PATA-CHITRA there .... they are now drawing some assignment for marriage invitation cards ....fortunately or unfortunately foreigners sometimes come to the artist to buy the BABu culture PATACHITRA :) ;) due to gradual decreasing demand of this art all the artists of patua para became expertise in CLAY-MODELLING ART (Hindu GOD/GODDESS) forgetting the pATA-CHITRA TRADITIONAL ART...
for more snaps of the Final day festival visit my page Shuvarthy Chowdhury Photography in FB
for any farther information
contact no-9163878100
mail id- shuvarthychowdhury.photography@gmail.com