tried to shoot the chau dance at charida from a different angle. First found a temple under construction near the stage performance. after entering into the temple just found all over bamboo supported roof and was too risky to shoot as in the temple no slippers or footwears are not allowed. I was allowed to enter the temple in naked feet and with my camera and a lense (18-55mm). I took some shot from the viewer's angle. I have shot chau dance in many places but it was the unique attempt to me for the first time.

----------------------------------------

© Shuvarthy Chowdhury Photography

LOCATION-- Charida, Purulia, West Bengal- 2015

CHAU MASK - INTRODUCTION

Chau dance an acrobatic martial danc e form of Purulia.It has been already enlisted in the UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Huminity.Chau is indegenous part of Eastern India. It originated as a martial art and contains vigorous movements and leaps. The barren land Purulia with its tribal inhabitants and multilayered influences of vedic literature, Hinduism and Martial Folk-lore have all combined to shape the PURULIA CHAU DANCE which has only one message - The triumph of good over evil.

The Purulia Chau dancers wear large stylized masks while performing chau dance. The Chau Mask is traditionally associated with this age old dance form of Purulia, where the performers wear masks of different mythological characters and also different animals.

The masks are made from paper pulp, mud and clay. First the outline shape on the mud is created. then the ultimate shape of the muddy layer is given with the wooden structure. After drying that under the sun it is covered with the white ash dust layer before the pulp paper layering with the glue. It helps to remain separated after drying of the paper layer under the sun. The Hard paper layer with a thin mud layer on it is painted in attractive shades with the acrylic colours usually brought from the Barabazar area of Kolkata. The masks are of different shapes and sizes starting from small to large one.

At present the Mask Making Industry is not only bounded in the traditional old mask making culture for the chau dance artist. The mask making artist are now being skilled of making various size and shape masks for Ineterior Decoration. Some artist are also making masks with modern painting styles.

THE STARTING OF CHAU MASK VILLAGE

Around 150 years ago during the rule of King Madan Mohan Singh Deo of Bagmundi the tradition of making chau masks started in the CHARIDA village of Purulia. Presently there are around 300 traditional Artists in the village known as "SUTRADHAR" community.

#chau #ChauMask #ChauMukhosh #mask #mukhosh #banglanatakdotcom #UNESCO #ruralart #WestBengal #India #Indianart #art #artist #ruralartist #Bengal #bengalart #bengalartist #homemadeart #Charida #charida-art #Purulia #purulia-art #purulia-artists

#shuvarthychowdhury #shuvarthychowdhuryphotography

© Shuvarthy Chowdhury Photography

LOCATION-- Charida, Purulia, West Bengal- 2015

CHAU MASK - INTRODUCTION

Chau dance an acrobatic martial danc e form of Purulia.It has been already enlisted in the UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Huminity.Chau is indegenous part of Eastern India. It originated as a martial art and contains vigorous movements and leaps. The barren land Purulia with its tribal inhabitants and multilayered influences of vedic literature, Hinduism and Martial Folk-lore have all combined to shape the PURULIA CHAU DANCE which has only one message - The triumph of good over evil.

The Purulia Chau dancers wear large stylized masks while performing chau dance. The Chau Mask is traditionally associated with this age old dance form of Purulia, where the performers wear masks of different mythological characters and also different animals.

The masks are made from paper pulp, mud and clay. First the outline shape on the mud is created. then the ultimate shape of the muddy layer is given with the wooden structure. After drying that under the sun it is covered with the white ash dust layer before the pulp paper layering with the glue. It helps to remain separated after drying of the paper laye under the sun. The Hard paper layer with a thin mud layer on it is painted in attractive shades with the acrylic colours usually brought from the Barabazar area of Kolkata. The masks are of different shapes and sizes starting from small to large one.

At present the Mask Making Industry is not only bounded in the traditional old mask making culture for the chau dance artist. The mask making artist are now being skilled of making various size and shape masks for Ineterior Decoration. Some artist are also making masks with modern painting styles.

THE STARTING OF CHAU MASK VILLAGE

Around 150 years ago during the rule of King Madan Mohan Singh Deo of Bagmundi the tradition of making chau masks started in the CHARIDA village of Purulia. Presently there are around 300 traditional Artists in the village known as "SUTRADHAR" community.

#chau #ChauMask #ChauMukhosh #mask #mukhosh #banglanatakdotcom #UNESCO #ruralart #WestBengal #India #Indianart #art #artist #ruralartist #Bengal #bengalart #bengalartist #homemadeart #Charida #charida-art #Purulia #purulia-art #purulia-artists

#shuvarthychowdhury #shuvarthychowdhuryphotography

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...

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tried to shoot the chau dance at charida from a different angle. First found a temple under construction near the stage performance. after entering into the temple just found all over bamboo supported roof and was too risky to shoot as in the temple no slippers or footwears are not allowed. I was allowed to enter the temple in naked feet and with my camera and a lense (18-55mm). I took some shot from the viewer's angle. I have shot chau dance in many places but it was the unique attempt to me for the first time.

----------------------------------------

© Shuvarthy Chowdhury Photography

LOCATION-- Charida, Purulia, West Bengal- 2015

CHAU MASK - INTRODUCTION

Chau dance an acrobatic martial danc e form of Purulia.It has been already enlisted in the UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Huminity.Chau is indegenous part of Eastern India. It originated as a martial art and contains vigorous movements and leaps. The barren land Purulia with its tribal inhabitants and multilayered influences of vedic literature, Hinduism and Martial Folk-lore have all combined to shape the PURULIA CHAU DANCE which has only one message - The triumph of good over evil.

The Purulia Chau dancers wear large stylized masks while performing chau dance. The Chau Mask is traditionally associated with this age old dance form of Purulia, where the performers wear masks of different mythological characters and also different animals.

The masks are made from paper pulp, mud and clay. First the outline shape on the mud is created. then the ultimate shape of the muddy layer is given with the wooden structure. After drying that under the sun it is covered with the white ash dust layer before the pulp paper layering with the glue. It helps to remain separated after drying of the paper layer under the sun. The Hard paper layer with a thin mud layer on it is painted in attractive shades with the acrylic colours usually brought from the Barabazar area of Kolkata. The masks are of different shapes and sizes starting from small to large one.

At present the Mask Making Industry is not only bounded in the traditional old mask making culture for the chau dance artist. The mask making artist are now being skilled of making various size and shape masks for Ineterior Decoration. Some artist are also making masks with modern painting styles.

THE STARTING OF CHAU MASK VILLAGE

Around 150 years ago during the rule of King Madan Mohan Singh Deo of Bagmundi the tradition of making chau masks started in the CHARIDA village of Purulia. Presently there are around 300 traditional Artists in the village known as "SUTRADHAR" community.

#chau #ChauMask #ChauMukhosh #mask #mukhosh #banglanatakdotcom #UNESCO #ruralart #WestBengal #India #Indianart #art #artist #ruralartist #Bengal #bengalart #bengalartist #homemadeart #Charida #charida-art #Purulia #purulia-art #purulia-artists

#shuvarthychowdhury #shuvarthychowdhuryphotography

tried to shoot the chau dance at charida from a different angle. First found a temple under construction near the stage performance. after entering into the temple just found all over bamboo supported roof and was too risky to shoot as in the temple no slippers or footwears are not allowed. I was allowed to enter the temple in naked feet and with my camera and a lense (18-55mm). I took some shot from the viewer's angle. I have shot chau dance in many places but it was the unique attempt to me for the first time.

----------------------------------------

© Shuvarthy Chowdhury Photography

LOCATION-- Charida, Purulia, West Bengal- 2015

CHAU MASK - INTRODUCTION

Chau dance an acrobatic martial danc e form of Purulia.It has been already enlisted in the UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Huminity.Chau is indegenous part of Eastern India. It originated as a martial art and contains vigorous movements and leaps. The barren land Purulia with its tribal inhabitants and multilayered influences of vedic literature, Hinduism and Martial Folk-lore have all combined to shape the PURULIA CHAU DANCE which has only one message - The triumph of good over evil.

The Purulia Chau dancers wear large stylized masks while performing chau dance. The Chau Mask is traditionally associated with this age old dance form of Purulia, where the performers wear masks of different mythological characters and also different animals.

The masks are made from paper pulp, mud and clay. First the outline shape on the mud is created. then the ultimate shape of the muddy layer is given with the wooden structure. After drying that under the sun it is covered with the white ash dust layer before the pulp paper layering with the glue. It helps to remain separated after drying of the paper layer under the sun. The Hard paper layer with a thin mud layer on it is painted in attractive shades with the acrylic colours usually brought from the Barabazar area of Kolkata. The masks are of different shapes and sizes starting from small to large one.

At present the Mask Making Industry is not only bounded in the traditional old mask making culture for the chau dance artist. The mask making artist are now being skilled of making various size and shape masks for Ineterior Decoration. Some artist are also making masks with modern painting styles.

THE STARTING OF CHAU MASK VILLAGE

Around 150 years ago during the rule of King Madan Mohan Singh Deo of Bagmundi the tradition of making chau masks started in the CHARIDA village of Purulia. Presently there are around 300 traditional Artists in the village known as "SUTRADHAR" community.

#chau #ChauMask #ChauMukhosh #mask #mukhosh #banglanatakdotcom #UNESCO #ruralart #WestBengal #India #Indianart #art #artist #ruralartist #Bengal #bengalart #bengalartist #homemadeart #Charida #charida-art #Purulia #purulia-art #purulia-artists

#shuvarthychowdhury #shuvarthychowdhuryphotography

© Shuvarthy Chowdhury Photography

LOCATION-- Charida, Purulia, West Bengal- 2015

CHAU MASK - INTRODUCTION

Chau dance an acrobatic martial danc e form of Purulia.It has been already enlisted in the UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Huminity.Chau is indegenous part of Eastern India. It originated as a martial art and contains vigorous movements and leaps. The barren land Purulia with its tribal inhabitants and multilayered influences of vedic literature, Hinduism and Martial Folk-lore have all combined to shape the PURULIA CHAU DANCE which has only one message - The triumph of good over evil.

The Purulia Chau dancers wear large stylized masks while performing chau dance. The Chau Mask is traditionally associated with this age old dance form of Purulia, where the performers wear masks of different mythological characters and also different animals.

The masks are made from paper pulp, mud and clay. First the outline shape on the mud is created. then the ultimate shape of the muddy layer is given with the wooden structure. After drying that under the sun it is covered with the white ash dust layer before the pulp paper layering with the glue. It helps to remain separated after drying of the paper laye under the sun. The Hard paper layer with a thin mud layer on it is painted in attractive shades with the acrylic colours usually brought from the Barabazar area of Kolkata. The masks are of different shapes and sizes starting from small to large one.

At present the Mask Making Industry is not only bounded in the traditional old mask making culture for the chau dance artist. The mask making artist are now being skilled of making various size and shape masks for Ineterior Decoration. Some artist are also making masks with modern painting styles.

THE STARTING OF CHAU MASK VILLAGE

Around 150 years ago during the rule of King Madan Mohan Singh Deo of Bagmundi the tradition of making chau masks started in the CHARIDA village of Purulia. Presently there are around 300 traditional Artists in the village known as "SUTRADHAR" community.

#chau #ChauMask #ChauMukhosh #mask #mukhosh #banglanatakdotcom #UNESCO #ruralart #WestBengal #India #Indianart #art #artist #ruralartist #Bengal #bengalart #bengalartist #homemadeart #Charida #charida-art #Purulia #purulia-art #purulia-artists

#shuvarthychowdhury #shuvarthychowdhuryphotography

tried to shoot the chau dance at charida from a different angle. First found a temple under construction near the stage performance. after entering into the temple just found all over bamboo supported roof and was too risky to shoot as in the temple no slippers or footwears are not allowed. I was allowed to enter the temple in naked feet and with my camera and a lense (18-55mm). I took some shot from the viewer's angle. I have shot chau dance in many places but it was the unique attempt to me for the first time.

----------------------------------------

© Shuvarthy Chowdhury Photography

LOCATION-- Charida, Purulia, West Bengal- 2015

CHAU MASK - INTRODUCTION

Chau dance an acrobatic martial danc e form of Purulia.It has been already enlisted in the UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Huminity.Chau is indegenous part of Eastern India. It originated as a martial art and contains vigorous movements and leaps. The barren land Purulia with its tribal inhabitants and multilayered influences of vedic literature, Hinduism and Martial Folk-lore have all combined to shape the PURULIA CHAU DANCE which has only one message - The triumph of good over evil.

The Purulia Chau dancers wear large stylized masks while performing chau dance. The Chau Mask is traditionally associated with this age old dance form of Purulia, where the performers wear masks of different mythological characters and also different animals.

The masks are made from paper pulp, mud and clay. First the outline shape on the mud is created. then the ultimate shape of the muddy layer is given with the wooden structure. After drying that under the sun it is covered with the white ash dust layer before the pulp paper layering with the glue. It helps to remain separated after drying of the paper layer under the sun. The Hard paper layer with a thin mud layer on it is painted in attractive shades with the acrylic colours usually brought from the Barabazar area of Kolkata. The masks are of different shapes and sizes starting from small to large one.

At present the Mask Making Industry is not only bounded in the traditional old mask making culture for the chau dance artist. The mask making artist are now being skilled of making various size and shape masks for Ineterior Decoration. Some artist are also making masks with modern painting styles.

THE STARTING OF CHAU MASK VILLAGE

Around 150 years ago during the rule of King Madan Mohan Singh Deo of Bagmundi the tradition of making chau masks started in the CHARIDA village of Purulia. Presently there are around 300 traditional Artists in the village known as "SUTRADHAR" community.

#chau #ChauMask #ChauMukhosh #mask #mukhosh #banglanatakdotcom #UNESCO #ruralart #WestBengal #India #Indianart #art #artist #ruralartist #Bengal #bengalart #bengalartist #homemadeart #Charida #charida-art #Purulia #purulia-art #purulia-artists

#shuvarthychowdhury #shuvarthychowdhuryphotography

tried to shoot the chau dance at charida from a different angle. First found a temple under construction near the stage performance. after entering into the temple just found all over bamboo supported roof and was too risky to shoot as in the temple no slippers or footwears are not allowed. I was allowed to enter the temple in naked feet and with my camera and a lense (18-55mm). I took some shot from the viewer's angle. I have shot chau dance in many places but it was the unique attempt to me for the first time.

----------------------------------------

© Shuvarthy Chowdhury Photography

LOCATION-- Charida, Purulia, West Bengal- 2015

CHAU MASK - INTRODUCTION

Chau dance an acrobatic martial danc e form of Purulia.It has been already enlisted in the UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Huminity.Chau is indegenous part of Eastern India. It originated as a martial art and contains vigorous movements and leaps. The barren land Purulia with its tribal inhabitants and multilayered influences of vedic literature, Hinduism and Martial Folk-lore have all combined to shape the PURULIA CHAU DANCE which has only one message - The triumph of good over evil.

The Purulia Chau dancers wear large stylized masks while performing chau dance. The Chau Mask is traditionally associated with this age old dance form of Purulia, where the performers wear masks of different mythological characters and also different animals.

The masks are made from paper pulp, mud and clay. First the outline shape on the mud is created. then the ultimate shape of the muddy layer is given with the wooden structure. After drying that under the sun it is covered with the white ash dust layer before the pulp paper layering with the glue. It helps to remain separated after drying of the paper layer under the sun. The Hard paper layer with a thin mud layer on it is painted in attractive shades with the acrylic colours usually brought from the Barabazar area of Kolkata. The masks are of different shapes and sizes starting from small to large one.

At present the Mask Making Industry is not only bounded in the traditional old mask making culture for the chau dance artist. The mask making artist are now being skilled of making various size and shape masks for Ineterior Decoration. Some artist are also making masks with modern painting styles.

THE STARTING OF CHAU MASK VILLAGE

Around 150 years ago during the rule of King Madan Mohan Singh Deo of Bagmundi the tradition of making chau masks started in the CHARIDA village of Purulia. Presently there are around 300 traditional Artists in the village known as "SUTRADHAR" community.

#chau #ChauMask #ChauMukhosh #mask #mukhosh #banglanatakdotcom #UNESCO #ruralart #WestBengal #India #Indianart #art #artist #ruralartist #Bengal #bengalart #bengalartist #homemadeart #Charida #charida-art #Purulia #purulia-art #purulia-artists

#shuvarthychowdhury #shuvarthychowdhuryphotography

© Shuvarthy Chowdhury Photography

LOCATION-- Charida, Purulia, West Bengal- 2015

CHAU MASK - INTRODUCTION

Chau dance an acrobatic martial danc e form of Purulia.It has been already enlisted in the UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Huminity.Chau is indegenous part of Eastern India. It originated as a martial art and contains vigorous movements and leaps. The barren land Purulia with its tribal inhabitants and multilayered influences of vedic literature, Hinduism and Martial Folk-lore have all combined to shape the PURULIA CHAU DANCE which has only one message - The triumph of good over evil.

The Purulia Chau dancers wear large stylized masks while performing chau dance. The Chau Mask is traditionally associated with this age old dance form of Purulia, where the performers wear masks of different mythological characters and also different animals.

The masks are made from paper pulp, mud and clay. First the outline shape on the mud is created. then the ultimate shape of the muddy layer is given with the wooden structure. After drying that under the sun it is covered with the white ash dust layer before the pulp paper layering with the glue. It helps to remain separated after drying of the paper laye under the sun. The Hard paper layer with a thin mud layer on it is painted in attractive shades with the acrylic colours usually brought from the Barabazar area of Kolkata. The masks are of different shapes and sizes starting from small to large one.

At present the Mask Making Industry is not only bounded in the traditional old mask making culture for the chau dance artist. The mask making artist are now being skilled of making various size and shape masks for Ineterior Decoration. Some artist are also making masks with modern painting styles.

THE STARTING OF CHAU MASK VILLAGE

Around 150 years ago during the rule of King Madan Mohan Singh Deo of Bagmundi the tradition of making chau masks started in the CHARIDA village of Purulia. Presently there are around 300 traditional Artists in the village known as "SUTRADHAR" community.

#chau #ChauMask #ChauMukhosh #mask #mukhosh #banglanatakdotcom #UNESCO #ruralart #WestBengal #India #Indianart #art #artist #ruralartist #Bengal #bengalart #bengalartist #homemadeart #Charida #charida-art #Purulia #purulia-art #purulia-artists

#shuvarthychowdhury #shuvarthychowdhuryphotography

© Shuvarthy Chowdhury Photography

LOCATION-- Charida, Purulia, West Bengal- 2015

CHAU MASK - INTRODUCTION

Chau dance an acrobatic martial danc e form of Purulia.It has been already enlisted in the UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Huminity.Chau is indegenous part of Eastern India. It originated as a martial art and contains vigorous movements and leaps. The barren land Purulia with its tribal inhabitants and multilayered influences of vedic literature, Hinduism and Martial Folk-lore have all combined to shape the PURULIA CHAU DANCE which has only one message - The triumph of good over evil.

The Purulia Chau dancers wear large stylized masks while performing chau dance. The Chau Mask is traditionally associated with this age old dance form of Purulia, where the performers wear masks of different mythological characters and also different animals.

The masks are made from paper pulp, mud and clay. First the outline shape on the mud is created. then the ultimate shape of the muddy layer is given with the wooden structure. After drying that under the sun it is covered with the white ash dust layer before the pulp paper layering with the glue. It helps to remain separated after drying of the paper laye under the sun. The Hard paper layer with a thin mud layer on it is painted in attractive shades with the acrylic colours usually brought from the Barabazar area of Kolkata. The masks are of different shapes and sizes starting from small to large one.

At present the Mask Making Industry is not only bounded in the traditional old mask making culture for the chau dance artist. The mask making artist are now being skilled of making various size and shape masks for Ineterior Decoration. Some artist are also making masks with modern painting styles.

THE STARTING OF CHAU MASK VILLAGE

Around 150 years ago during the rule of King Madan Mohan Singh Deo of Bagmundi the tradition of making chau masks started in the CHARIDA village of Purulia. Presently there are around 300 traditional Artists in the village known as "SUTRADHAR" community.

#chau #ChauMask #ChauMukhosh #mask #mukhosh #banglanatakdotcom #UNESCO #ruralart #WestBengal #India #Indianart #art #artist #ruralartist #Bengal #bengalart #bengalartist #homemadeart #Charida #charida-art #Purulia #purulia-art #purulia-artists

#shuvarthychowdhury #shuvarthychowdhuryphotography

tried to shoot the chau dance at charida from a different angle. First found a temple under construction near the stage performance. after entering into the temple just found all over bamboo supported roof and was too risky to shoot as in the temple no slippers or footwears are not allowed. I was allowed to enter the temple in naked feet and with my camera and a lense (18-55mm). I took some shot from the viewer's angle. I have shot chau dance in many places but it was the unique attempt to me for the first time.

----------------------------------------

© Shuvarthy Chowdhury Photography

LOCATION-- Charida, Purulia, West Bengal- 2015

CHAU MASK - INTRODUCTION

Chau dance an acrobatic martial danc e form of Purulia.It has been already enlisted in the UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Huminity.Chau is indegenous part of Eastern India. It originated as a martial art and contains vigorous movements and leaps. The barren land Purulia with its tribal inhabitants and multilayered influences of vedic literature, Hinduism and Martial Folk-lore have all combined to shape the PURULIA CHAU DANCE which has only one message - The triumph of good over evil.

The Purulia Chau dancers wear large stylized masks while performing chau dance. The Chau Mask is traditionally associated with this age old dance form of Purulia, where the performers wear masks of different mythological characters and also different animals.

The masks are made from paper pulp, mud and clay. First the outline shape on the mud is created. then the ultimate shape of the muddy layer is given with the wooden structure. After drying that under the sun it is covered with the white ash dust layer before the pulp paper layering with the glue. It helps to remain separated after drying of the paper layer under the sun. The Hard paper layer with a thin mud layer on it is painted in attractive shades with the acrylic colours usually brought from the Barabazar area of Kolkata. The masks are of different shapes and sizes starting from small to large one.

At present the Mask Making Industry is not only bounded in the traditional old mask making culture for the chau dance artist. The mask making artist are now being skilled of making various size and shape masks for Ineterior Decoration. Some artist are also making masks with modern painting styles.

THE STARTING OF CHAU MASK VILLAGE

Around 150 years ago during the rule of King Madan Mohan Singh Deo of Bagmundi the tradition of making chau masks started in the CHARIDA village of Purulia. Presently there are around 300 traditional Artists in the village known as "SUTRADHAR" community.

#chau #ChauMask #ChauMukhosh #mask #mukhosh #banglanatakdotcom #UNESCO #ruralart #WestBengal #India #Indianart #art #artist #ruralartist #Bengal #bengalart #bengalartist #homemadeart #Charida #charida-art #Purulia #purulia-art #purulia-artists

#shuvarthychowdhury #shuvarthychowdhuryphotography

© Shuvarthy Chowdhury Photography

LOCATION-- Charida, Purulia, West Bengal- 2015

CHAU MASK - INTRODUCTION

Chau dance an acrobatic martial danc e form of Purulia.It has been already enlisted in the UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Huminity.Chau is indegenous part of Eastern India. It originated as a martial art and contains vigorous movements and leaps. The barren land Purulia with its tribal inhabitants and multilayered influences of vedic literature, Hinduism and Martial Folk-lore have all combined to shape the PURULIA CHAU DANCE which has only one message - The triumph of good over evil.

The Purulia Chau dancers wear large stylized masks while performing chau dance. The Chau Mask is traditionally associated with this age old dance form of Purulia, where the performers wear masks of different mythological characters and also different animals.

The masks are made from paper pulp, mud and clay. First the outline shape on the mud is created. then the ultimate shape of the muddy layer is given with the wooden structure. After drying that under the sun it is covered with the white ash dust layer before the pulp paper layering with the glue. It helps to remain separated after drying of the paper laye under the sun. The Hard paper layer with a thin mud layer on it is painted in attractive shades with the acrylic colours usually brought from the Barabazar area of Kolkata. The masks are of different shapes and sizes starting from small to large one.

At present the Mask Making Industry is not only bounded in the traditional old mask making culture for the chau dance artist. The mask making artist are now being skilled of making various size and shape masks for Ineterior Decoration. Some artist are also making masks with modern painting styles.

THE STARTING OF CHAU MASK VILLAGE

Around 150 years ago during the rule of King Madan Mohan Singh Deo of Bagmundi the tradition of making chau masks started in the CHARIDA village of Purulia. Presently there are around 300 traditional Artists in the village known as "SUTRADHAR" community.

#chau #ChauMask #ChauMukhosh #mask #mukhosh #banglanatakdotcom #UNESCO #ruralart #WestBengal #India #Indianart #art #artist #ruralartist #Bengal #bengalart #bengalartist #homemadeart #Charida #charida-art #Purulia #purulia-art #purulia-artists

#shuvarthychowdhury #shuvarthychowdhuryphotography

© Shuvarthy Chowdhury Photography

LOCATION-- Charida, Purulia, West Bengal- 2015

CHAU MASK - INTRODUCTION

Chau dance an acrobatic martial danc e form of Purulia.It has been already enlisted in the UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Huminity.Chau is indegenous part of Eastern India. It originated as a martial art and contains vigorous movements and leaps. The barren land Purulia with its tribal inhabitants and multilayered influences of vedic literature, Hinduism and Martial Folk-lore have all combined to shape the PURULIA CHAU DANCE which has only one message - The triumph of good over evil.

The Purulia Chau dancers wear large stylized masks while performing chau dance. The Chau Mask is traditionally associated with this age old dance form of Purulia, where the performers wear masks of different mythological characters and also different animals.

The masks are made from paper pulp, mud and clay. First the outline shape on the mud is created. then the ultimate shape of the muddy layer is given with the wooden structure. After drying that under the sun it is covered with the white ash dust layer before the pulp paper layering with the glue. It helps to remain separated after drying of the paper laye under the sun. The Hard paper layer with a thin mud layer on it is painted in attractive shades with the acrylic colours usually brought from the Barabazar area of Kolkata. The masks are of different shapes and sizes starting from small to large one.

At present the Mask Making Industry is not only bounded in the traditional old mask making culture for the chau dance artist. The mask making artist are now being skilled of making various size and shape masks for Ineterior Decoration. Some artist are also making masks with modern painting styles.

THE STARTING OF CHAU MASK VILLAGE

Around 150 years ago during the rule of King Madan Mohan Singh Deo of Bagmundi the tradition of making chau masks started in the CHARIDA village of Purulia. Presently there are around 300 traditional Artists in the village known as "SUTRADHAR" community.

#chau #ChauMask #ChauMukhosh #mask #mukhosh #banglanatakdotcom #UNESCO #ruralart #WestBengal #India #Indianart #art #artist #ruralartist #Bengal #bengalart #bengalartist #homemadeart #Charida #charida-art #Purulia #purulia-art #purulia-artists

#shuvarthychowdhury #shuvarthychowdhuryphotography

© Shuvarthy Chowdhury Photography

LOCATION-- Charida, Purulia, West Bengal- 2015

CHAU MASK - INTRODUCTION

Chau dance an acrobatic martial danc e form of Purulia.It has been already enlisted in the UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Huminity.Chau is indegenous part of Eastern India. It originated as a martial art and contains vigorous movements and leaps. The barren land Purulia with its tribal inhabitants and multilayered influences of vedic literature, Hinduism and Martial Folk-lore have all combined to shape the PURULIA CHAU DANCE which has only one message - The triumph of good over evil.

The Purulia Chau dancers wear large stylized masks while performing chau dance. The Chau Mask is traditionally associated with this age old dance form of Purulia, where the performers wear masks of different mythological characters and also different animals.

The masks are made from paper pulp, mud and clay. First the outline shape on the mud is created. then the ultimate shape of the muddy layer is given with the wooden structure. After drying that under the sun it is covered with the white ash dust layer before the pulp paper layering with the glue. It helps to remain separated after drying of the paper laye under the sun. The Hard paper layer with a thin mud layer on it is painted in attractive shades with the acrylic colours usually brought from the Barabazar area of Kolkata. The masks are of different shapes and sizes starting from small to large one.

At present the Mask Making Industry is not only bounded in the traditional old mask making culture for the chau dance artist. The mask making artist are now being skilled of making various size and shape masks for Ineterior Decoration. Some artist are also making masks with modern painting styles.

THE STARTING OF CHAU MASK VILLAGE

Around 150 years ago during the rule of King Madan Mohan Singh Deo of Bagmundi the tradition of making chau masks started in the CHARIDA village of Purulia. Presently there are around 300 traditional Artists in the village known as "SUTRADHAR" community.

#chau #ChauMask #ChauMukhosh #mask #mukhosh #banglanatakdotcom #UNESCO #ruralart #WestBengal #India #Indianart #art #artist #ruralartist #Bengal #bengalart #bengalartist #homemadeart #Charida #charida-art #Purulia #purulia-art #purulia-artists

#shuvarthychowdhury #shuvarthychowdhuryphotography

© Shuvarthy Chowdhury Photography

LOCATION-- Charida, Purulia, West Bengal- 2015

CHAU MASK - INTRODUCTION

Chau dance an acrobatic martial danc e form of Purulia.It has been already enlisted in the UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Huminity.Chau is indegenous part of Eastern India. It originated as a martial art and contains vigorous movements and leaps. The barren land Purulia with its tribal inhabitants and multilayered influences of vedic literature, Hinduism and Martial Folk-lore have all combined to shape the PURULIA CHAU DANCE which has only one message - The triumph of good over evil.

The Purulia Chau dancers wear large stylized masks while performing chau dance. The Chau Mask is traditionally associated with this age old dance form of Purulia, where the performers wear masks of different mythological characters and also different animals.

The masks are made from paper pulp, mud and clay. First the outline shape on the mud is created. then the ultimate shape of the muddy layer is given with the wooden structure. After drying that under the sun it is covered with the white ash dust layer before the pulp paper layering with the glue. It helps to remain separated after drying of the paper laye under the sun. The Hard paper layer with a thin mud layer on it is painted in attractive shades with the acrylic colours usually brought from the Barabazar area of Kolkata. The masks are of different shapes and sizes starting from small to large one.

At present the Mask Making Industry is not only bounded in the traditional old mask making culture for the chau dance artist. The mask making artist are now being skilled of making various size and shape masks for Ineterior Decoration. Some artist are also making masks with modern painting styles.

THE STARTING OF CHAU MASK VILLAGE

Around 150 years ago during the rule of King Madan Mohan Singh Deo of Bagmundi the tradition of making chau masks started in the CHARIDA village of Purulia. Presently there are around 300 traditional Artists in the village known as "SUTRADHAR" community.

#chau #ChauMask #ChauMukhosh #mask #mukhosh #banglanatakdotcom #UNESCO #ruralart #WestBengal #India #Indianart #art #artist #ruralartist #Bengal #bengalart #bengalartist #homemadeart #Charida #charida-art #Purulia #purulia-art #purulia-artists

#shuvarthychowdhury #shuvarthychowdhuryphotography

© Shuvarthy Chowdhury Photography

LOCATION-- Charida, Purulia, West Bengal- 2015

CHAU MASK - INTRODUCTION

Chau dance an acrobatic martial danc e form of Purulia.It has been already enlisted in the UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Huminity.Chau is indegenous part of Eastern India. It originated as a martial art and contains vigorous movements and leaps. The barren land Purulia with its tribal inhabitants and multilayered influences of vedic literature, Hinduism and Martial Folk-lore have all combined to shape the PURULIA CHAU DANCE which has only one message - The triumph of good over evil.

The Purulia Chau dancers wear large stylized masks while performing chau dance. The Chau Mask is traditionally associated with this age old dance form of Purulia, where the performers wear masks of different mythological characters and also different animals.

The masks are made from paper pulp, mud and clay. First the outline shape on the mud is created. then the ultimate shape of the muddy layer is given with the wooden structure. After drying that under the sun it is covered with the white ash dust layer before the pulp paper layering with the glue. It helps to remain separated after drying of the paper laye under the sun. The Hard paper layer with a thin mud layer on it is painted in attractive shades with the acrylic colours usually brought from the Barabazar area of Kolkata. The masks are of different shapes and sizes starting from small to large one.

At present the Mask Making Industry is not only bounded in the traditional old mask making culture for the chau dance artist. The mask making artist are now being skilled of making various size and shape masks for Ineterior Decoration. Some artist are also making masks with modern painting styles.

THE STARTING OF CHAU MASK VILLAGE

Around 150 years ago during the rule of King Madan Mohan Singh Deo of Bagmundi the tradition of making chau masks started in the CHARIDA village of Purulia. Presently there are around 300 traditional Artists in the village known as "SUTRADHAR" community.

#chau #ChauMask #ChauMukhosh #mask #mukhosh #banglanatakdotcom #UNESCO #ruralart #WestBengal #India #Indianart #art #artist #ruralartist #Bengal #bengalart #bengalartist #homemadeart #Charida #charida-art #Purulia #purulia-art #purulia-artists

#shuvarthychowdhury #shuvarthychowdhuryphotography

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

tried to shoot the chau dance at charida from a different angle. First found a temple under construction near the stage performance. after entering into the temple just found all over bamboo supported roof and was too risky to shoot as in the temple no slippers or footwears are not allowed. I was allowed to enter the temple in naked feet and with my camera and a lense (18-55mm). I took some shot from the viewer's angle. I have shot chau dance in many places but it was the unique attempt to me for the first time.

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© Shuvarthy Chowdhury Photography

LOCATION-- Charida, Purulia, West Bengal- 2015

CHAU MASK - INTRODUCTION

Chau dance an acrobatic martial danc e form of Purulia.It has been already enlisted in the UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Huminity.Chau is indegenous part of Eastern India. It originated as a martial art and contains vigorous movements and leaps. The barren land Purulia with its tribal inhabitants and multilayered influences of vedic literature, Hinduism and Martial Folk-lore have all combined to shape the PURULIA CHAU DANCE which has only one message - The triumph of good over evil.

The Purulia Chau dancers wear large stylized masks while performing chau dance. The Chau Mask is traditionally associated with this age old dance form of Purulia, where the performers wear masks of different mythological characters and also different animals.

The masks are made from paper pulp, mud and clay. First the outline shape on the mud is created. then the ultimate shape of the muddy layer is given with the wooden structure. After drying that under the sun it is covered with the white ash dust layer before the pulp paper layering with the glue. It helps to remain separated after drying of the paper layer under the sun. The Hard paper layer with a thin mud layer on it is painted in attractive shades with the acrylic colours usually brought from the Barabazar area of Kolkata. The masks are of different shapes and sizes starting from small to large one.

At present the Mask Making Industry is not only bounded in the traditional old mask making culture for the chau dance artist. The mask making artist are now being skilled of making various size and shape masks for Ineterior Decoration. Some artist are also making masks with modern painting styles.

THE STARTING OF CHAU MASK VILLAGE

Around 150 years ago during the rule of King Madan Mohan Singh Deo of Bagmundi the tradition of making chau masks started in the CHARIDA village of Purulia. Presently there are around 300 traditional Artists in the village known as "SUTRADHAR" community.

#chau #ChauMask #ChauMukhosh #mask #mukhosh #banglanatakdotcom #UNESCO #ruralart #WestBengal #India #Indianart #art #artist #ruralartist #Bengal #bengalart #bengalartist #homemadeart #Charida #charida-art #Purulia #purulia-art #purulia-artists

#shuvarthychowdhury #shuvarthychowdhuryphotography

tried to shoot the chau dance at charida from a different angle. First found a temple under construction near the stage performance. after entering into the temple just found all over bamboo supported roof and was too risky to shoot as in the temple no slippers or footwears are not allowed. I was allowed to enter the temple in naked feet and with my camera and a lense (18-55mm). I took some shot from the viewer's angle. I have shot chau dance in many places but it was the unique attempt to me for the first time.

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© Shuvarthy Chowdhury Photography

LOCATION-- Charida, Purulia, West Bengal- 2015

CHAU MASK - INTRODUCTION

Chau dance an acrobatic martial danc e form of Purulia.It has been already enlisted in the UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Huminity.Chau is indegenous part of Eastern India. It originated as a martial art and contains vigorous movements and leaps. The barren land Purulia with its tribal inhabitants and multilayered influences of vedic literature, Hinduism and Martial Folk-lore have all combined to shape the PURULIA CHAU DANCE which has only one message - The triumph of good over evil.

The Purulia Chau dancers wear large stylized masks while performing chau dance. The Chau Mask is traditionally associated with this age old dance form of Purulia, where the performers wear masks of different mythological characters and also different animals.

The masks are made from paper pulp, mud and clay. First the outline shape on the mud is created. then the ultimate shape of the muddy layer is given with the wooden structure. After drying that under the sun it is covered with the white ash dust layer before the pulp paper layering with the glue. It helps to remain separated after drying of the paper layer under the sun. The Hard paper layer with a thin mud layer on it is painted in attractive shades with the acrylic colours usually brought from the Barabazar area of Kolkata. The masks are of different shapes and sizes starting from small to large one.

At present the Mask Making Industry is not only bounded in the traditional old mask making culture for the chau dance artist. The mask making artist are now being skilled of making various size and shape masks for Ineterior Decoration. Some artist are also making masks with modern painting styles.

THE STARTING OF CHAU MASK VILLAGE

Around 150 years ago during the rule of King Madan Mohan Singh Deo of Bagmundi the tradition of making chau masks started in the CHARIDA village of Purulia. Presently there are around 300 traditional Artists in the village known as "SUTRADHAR" community.

#chau #ChauMask #ChauMukhosh #mask #mukhosh #banglanatakdotcom #UNESCO #ruralart #WestBengal #India #Indianart #art #artist #ruralartist #Bengal #bengalart #bengalartist #homemadeart #Charida #charida-art #Purulia #purulia-art #purulia-artists

#shuvarthychowdhury #shuvarthychowdhuryphotography

tried to shoot the chau dance at charida from a different angle. First found a temple under construction near the stage performance. after entering into the temple just found all over bamboo supported roof and was too risky to shoot as in the temple no slippers or footwears are not allowed. I was allowed to enter the temple in naked feet and with my camera and a lense (18-55mm). I took some shot from the viewer's angle. I have shot chau dance in many places but it was the unique attempt to me for the first time.

----------------------------------------

© Shuvarthy Chowdhury Photography

LOCATION-- Charida, Purulia, West Bengal- 2015

CHAU MASK - INTRODUCTION

Chau dance an acrobatic martial danc e form of Purulia.It has been already enlisted in the UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Huminity.Chau is indegenous part of Eastern India. It originated as a martial art and contains vigorous movements and leaps. The barren land Purulia with its tribal inhabitants and multilayered influences of vedic literature, Hinduism and Martial Folk-lore have all combined to shape the PURULIA CHAU DANCE which has only one message - The triumph of good over evil.

The Purulia Chau dancers wear large stylized masks while performing chau dance. The Chau Mask is traditionally associated with this age old dance form of Purulia, where the performers wear masks of different mythological characters and also different animals.

The masks are made from paper pulp, mud and clay. First the outline shape on the mud is created. then the ultimate shape of the muddy layer is given with the wooden structure. After drying that under the sun it is covered with the white ash dust layer before the pulp paper layering with the glue. It helps to remain separated after drying of the paper layer under the sun. The Hard paper layer with a thin mud layer on it is painted in attractive shades with the acrylic colours usually brought from the Barabazar area of Kolkata. The masks are of different shapes and sizes starting from small to large one.

At present the Mask Making Industry is not only bounded in the traditional old mask making culture for the chau dance artist. The mask making artist are now being skilled of making various size and shape masks for Ineterior Decoration. Some artist are also making masks with modern painting styles.

THE STARTING OF CHAU MASK VILLAGE

Around 150 years ago during the rule of King Madan Mohan Singh Deo of Bagmundi the tradition of making chau masks started in the CHARIDA village of Purulia. Presently there are around 300 traditional Artists in the village known as "SUTRADHAR" community.

#chau #ChauMask #ChauMukhosh #mask #mukhosh #banglanatakdotcom #UNESCO #ruralart #WestBengal #India #Indianart #art #artist #ruralartist #Bengal #bengalart #bengalartist #homemadeart #Charida #charida-art #Purulia #purulia-art #purulia-artists

#shuvarthychowdhury #shuvarthychowdhuryphotography

Homemade ethnic character dolls are the main characteristic feature of NATUNGRAM village of BARDWAN district, West Bengal. The nearest Railway stations from the village are Agradeep and Katwa (1.4-1.5 km).

The dolls are carved in wood and decoratively painted by a group of rural craft persons, known as "SUTRADHARS" ( meaning 'narrator' or 'story teller'), because they make characters from ancient folklores and mythology and tell stories through their dolls.

The owl, with its unique design and colours, is the brand product of the village. On the white background of the owl is painted with the distinctive colours of red, green, yellow and black colours lines. Beside the Owl Krishna-Radha, King- Queen, Durga dolls are made in traditional way.

The dolls are craved from one single piece of wood. A big piece of cylindrical woood is cut off in every direction according to the size, shape and figure requirement. Then to give it a final shape the structure is chiseled out. The traditional design based on culture and mythology, the richness of ideas, the brilliant combination of pure and simplicity and glamour combined with the master craftmanship of the craft artists, resulting an amazing art work. Now a days some of the wodden dolls are barnished to give them a great finishing touch for making them useful in interior decoration.

Around 60 families living in the Natungram village are involved in the Doll making. In this family craft business both men and women have key role. The doll makers are organized as a collective, 'Natungram Kastho Khodai Hastashilpa Samity'.

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Wooden Doll Village-Natungram, Burdwan - 2015

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#natungram #katherputul #putul #doll #woodendoll #Bardwan #argyadeep #katwa #argyadeepraiwaystation #hostoshilpo #haterkaj #artofhand #handofart #banglanatakdotcom #UNESCO #ruralart #WestBengal #India #Indianart #art #artist #ruralartist #Bengal #bengalart #bengalartist #homemadeart

#shuvarthychowdhury #shuvarthychowdhuryphotography #villageart #villageartist #burdwanart #burdwanartist #art #artist #kutirshilpo

© Shuvarthy Chowdhury Photography

LOCATION-- Charida, Purulia, West Bengal- 2015

CHAU MASK - INTRODUCTION

Chau dance an acrobatic martial danc e form of Purulia.It has been already enlisted in the UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Huminity.Chau is indegenous part of Eastern India. It originated as a martial art and contains vigorous movements and leaps. The barren land Purulia with its tribal inhabitants and multilayered influences of vedic literature, Hinduism and Martial Folk-lore have all combined to shape the PURULIA CHAU DANCE which has only one message - The triumph of good over evil.

The Purulia Chau dancers wear large stylized masks while performing chau dance. The Chau Mask is traditionally associated with this age old dance form of Purulia, where the performers wear masks of different mythological characters and also different animals.

The masks are made from paper pulp, mud and clay. First the outline shape on the mud is created. then the ultimate shape of the muddy layer is given with the wooden structure. After drying that under the sun it is covered with the white ash dust layer before the pulp paper layering with the glue. It helps to remain separated after drying of the paper laye under the sun. The Hard paper layer with a thin mud layer on it is painted in attractive shades with the acrylic colours usually brought from the Barabazar area of Kolkata. The masks are of different shapes and sizes starting from small to large one.

At present the Mask Making Industry is not only bounded in the traditional old mask making culture for the chau dance artist. The mask making artist are now being skilled of making various size and shape masks for Ineterior Decoration. Some artist are also making masks with modern painting styles.

THE STARTING OF CHAU MASK VILLAGE

Around 150 years ago during the rule of King Madan Mohan Singh Deo of Bagmundi the tradition of making chau masks started in the CHARIDA village of Purulia. Presently there are around 300 traditional Artists in the village known as "SUTRADHAR" community.

#chau #ChauMask #ChauMukhosh #mask #mukhosh #banglanatakdotcom #UNESCO #ruralart #WestBengal #India #Indianart #art #artist #ruralartist #Bengal #bengalart #bengalartist #homemadeart #Charida #charida-art #Purulia #purulia-art #purulia-artists

#shuvarthychowdhury #shuvarthychowdhuryphotography

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

tried to shoot the chau dance at charida from a different angle. First found a temple under construction near the stage performance. after entering into the temple just found all over bamboo supported roof and was too risky to shoot as in the temple no slippers or footwears are not allowed. I was allowed to enter the temple in naked feet and with my camera and a lense (18-55mm). I took some shot from the viewer's angle. I have shot chau dance in many places but it was the unique attempt to me for the first time.

----------------------------------------

© Shuvarthy Chowdhury Photography

LOCATION-- Charida, Purulia, West Bengal- 2015

CHAU MASK - INTRODUCTION

Chau dance an acrobatic martial danc e form of Purulia.It has been already enlisted in the UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Huminity.Chau is indegenous part of Eastern India. It originated as a martial art and contains vigorous movements and leaps. The barren land Purulia with its tribal inhabitants and multilayered influences of vedic literature, Hinduism and Martial Folk-lore have all combined to shape the PURULIA CHAU DANCE which has only one message - The triumph of good over evil.

The Purulia Chau dancers wear large stylized masks while performing chau dance. The Chau Mask is traditionally associated with this age old dance form of Purulia, where the performers wear masks of different mythological characters and also different animals.

The masks are made from paper pulp, mud and clay. First the outline shape on the mud is created. then the ultimate shape of the muddy layer is given with the wooden structure. After drying that under the sun it is covered with the white ash dust layer before the pulp paper layering with the glue. It helps to remain separated after drying of the paper layer under the sun. The Hard paper layer with a thin mud layer on it is painted in attractive shades with the acrylic colours usually brought from the Barabazar area of Kolkata. The masks are of different shapes and sizes starting from small to large one.

At present the Mask Making Industry is not only bounded in the traditional old mask making culture for the chau dance artist. The mask making artist are now being skilled of making various size and shape masks for Ineterior Decoration. Some artist are also making masks with modern painting styles.

THE STARTING OF CHAU MASK VILLAGE

Around 150 years ago during the rule of King Madan Mohan Singh Deo of Bagmundi the tradition of making chau masks started in the CHARIDA village of Purulia. Presently there are around 300 traditional Artists in the village known as "SUTRADHAR" community.

#chau #ChauMask #ChauMukhosh #mask #mukhosh #banglanatakdotcom #UNESCO #ruralart #WestBengal #India #Indianart #art #artist #ruralartist #Bengal #bengalart #bengalartist #homemadeart #Charida #charida-art #Purulia #purulia-art #purulia-artists

#shuvarthychowdhury #shuvarthychowdhuryphotography

tried to shoot the chau dance at charida from a different angle. First found a temple under construction near the stage performance. after entering into the temple just found all over bamboo supported roof and was too risky to shoot as in the temple no slippers or footwears are not allowed. I was allowed to enter the temple in naked feet and with my camera and a lense (18-55mm). I took some shot from the viewer's angle. I have shot chau dance in many places but it was the unique attempt to me for the first time.

----------------------------------------

© Shuvarthy Chowdhury Photography

LOCATION-- Charida, Purulia, West Bengal- 2015

CHAU MASK - INTRODUCTION

Chau dance an acrobatic martial danc e form of Purulia.It has been already enlisted in the UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Huminity.Chau is indegenous part of Eastern India. It originated as a martial art and contains vigorous movements and leaps. The barren land Purulia with its tribal inhabitants and multilayered influences of vedic literature, Hinduism and Martial Folk-lore have all combined to shape the PURULIA CHAU DANCE which has only one message - The triumph of good over evil.

The Purulia Chau dancers wear large stylized masks while performing chau dance. The Chau Mask is traditionally associated with this age old dance form of Purulia, where the performers wear masks of different mythological characters and also different animals.

The masks are made from paper pulp, mud and clay. First the outline shape on the mud is created. then the ultimate shape of the muddy layer is given with the wooden structure. After drying that under the sun it is covered with the white ash dust layer before the pulp paper layering with the glue. It helps to remain separated after drying of the paper layer under the sun. The Hard paper layer with a thin mud layer on it is painted in attractive shades with the acrylic colours usually brought from the Barabazar area of Kolkata. The masks are of different shapes and sizes starting from small to large one.

At present the Mask Making Industry is not only bounded in the traditional old mask making culture for the chau dance artist. The mask making artist are now being skilled of making various size and shape masks for Ineterior Decoration. Some artist are also making masks with modern painting styles.

THE STARTING OF CHAU MASK VILLAGE

Around 150 years ago during the rule of King Madan Mohan Singh Deo of Bagmundi the tradition of making chau masks started in the CHARIDA village of Purulia. Presently there are around 300 traditional Artists in the village known as "SUTRADHAR" community.

#chau #ChauMask #ChauMukhosh #mask #mukhosh #banglanatakdotcom #UNESCO #ruralart #WestBengal #India #Indianart #art #artist #ruralartist #Bengal #bengalart #bengalartist #homemadeart #Charida #charida-art #Purulia #purulia-art #purulia-artists

#shuvarthychowdhury #shuvarthychowdhuryphotography

© Shuvarthy Chowdhury Photography

LOCATION-- Charida, Purulia, West Bengal- 2015

CHAU MASK - INTRODUCTION

Chau dance an acrobatic martial danc e form of Purulia.It has been already enlisted in the UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Huminity.Chau is indegenous part of Eastern India. It originated as a martial art and contains vigorous movements and leaps. The barren land Purulia with its tribal inhabitants and multilayered influences of vedic literature, Hinduism and Martial Folk-lore have all combined to shape the PURULIA CHAU DANCE which has only one message - The triumph of good over evil.

The Purulia Chau dancers wear large stylized masks while performing chau dance. The Chau Mask is traditionally associated with this age old dance form of Purulia, where the performers wear masks of different mythological characters and also different animals.

The masks are made from paper pulp, mud and clay. First the outline shape on the mud is created. then the ultimate shape of the muddy layer is given with the wooden structure. After drying that under the sun it is covered with the white ash dust layer before the pulp paper layering with the glue. It helps to remain separated after drying of the paper laye under the sun. The Hard paper layer with a thin mud layer on it is painted in attractive shades with the acrylic colours usually brought from the Barabazar area of Kolkata. The masks are of different shapes and sizes starting from small to large one.

At present the Mask Making Industry is not only bounded in the traditional old mask making culture for the chau dance artist. The mask making artist are now being skilled of making various size and shape masks for Ineterior Decoration. Some artist are also making masks with modern painting styles.

THE STARTING OF CHAU MASK VILLAGE

Around 150 years ago during the rule of King Madan Mohan Singh Deo of Bagmundi the tradition of making chau masks started in the CHARIDA village of Purulia. Presently there are around 300 traditional Artists in the village known as "SUTRADHAR" community.

#chau #ChauMask #ChauMukhosh #mask #mukhosh #banglanatakdotcom #UNESCO #ruralart #WestBengal #India #Indianart #art #artist #ruralartist #Bengal #bengalart #bengalartist #homemadeart #Charida #charida-art #Purulia #purulia-art #purulia-artists

#shuvarthychowdhury #shuvarthychowdhuryphotography

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

tried to shoot the chau dance at charida from a different angle. First found a temple under construction near the stage performance. after entering into the temple just found all over bamboo supported roof and was too risky to shoot as in the temple no slippers or footwears are not allowed. I was allowed to enter the temple in naked feet and with my camera and a lense (18-55mm). I took some shot from the viewer's angle. I have shot chau dance in many places but it was the unique attempt to me for the first time.

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© Shuvarthy Chowdhury Photography

LOCATION-- Charida, Purulia, West Bengal- 2015

CHAU MASK - INTRODUCTION

Chau dance an acrobatic martial danc e form of Purulia.It has been already enlisted in the UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Huminity.Chau is indegenous part of Eastern India. It originated as a martial art and contains vigorous movements and leaps. The barren land Purulia with its tribal inhabitants and multilayered influences of vedic literature, Hinduism and Martial Folk-lore have all combined to shape the PURULIA CHAU DANCE which has only one message - The triumph of good over evil.

The Purulia Chau dancers wear large stylized masks while performing chau dance. The Chau Mask is traditionally associated with this age old dance form of Purulia, where the performers wear masks of different mythological characters and also different animals.

The masks are made from paper pulp, mud and clay. First the outline shape on the mud is created. then the ultimate shape of the muddy layer is given with the wooden structure. After drying that under the sun it is covered with the white ash dust layer before the pulp paper layering with the glue. It helps to remain separated after drying of the paper layer under the sun. The Hard paper layer with a thin mud layer on it is painted in attractive shades with the acrylic colours usually brought from the Barabazar area of Kolkata. The masks are of different shapes and sizes starting from small to large one.

At present the Mask Making Industry is not only bounded in the traditional old mask making culture for the chau dance artist. The mask making artist are now being skilled of making various size and shape masks for Ineterior Decoration. Some artist are also making masks with modern painting styles.

THE STARTING OF CHAU MASK VILLAGE

Around 150 years ago during the rule of King Madan Mohan Singh Deo of Bagmundi the tradition of making chau masks started in the CHARIDA village of Purulia. Presently there are around 300 traditional Artists in the village known as "SUTRADHAR" community.

#chau #ChauMask #ChauMukhosh #mask #mukhosh #banglanatakdotcom #UNESCO #ruralart #WestBengal #India #Indianart #art #artist #ruralartist #Bengal #bengalart #bengalartist #homemadeart #Charida #charida-art #Purulia #purulia-art #purulia-artists

#shuvarthychowdhury #shuvarthychowdhuryphotography

tried to shoot the chau dance at charida from a different angle. First found a temple under construction near the stage performance. after entering into the temple just found all over bamboo supported roof and was too risky to shoot as in the temple no slippers or footwears are not allowed. I was allowed to enter the temple in naked feet and with my camera and a lense (18-55mm). I took some shot from the viewer's angle. I have shot chau dance in many places but it was the unique attempt to me for the first time.

----------------------------------------

© Shuvarthy Chowdhury Photography

LOCATION-- Charida, Purulia, West Bengal- 2015

CHAU MASK - INTRODUCTION

Chau dance an acrobatic martial danc e form of Purulia.It has been already enlisted in the UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Huminity.Chau is indegenous part of Eastern India. It originated as a martial art and contains vigorous movements and leaps. The barren land Purulia with its tribal inhabitants and multilayered influences of vedic literature, Hinduism and Martial Folk-lore have all combined to shape the PURULIA CHAU DANCE which has only one message - The triumph of good over evil.

The Purulia Chau dancers wear large stylized masks while performing chau dance. The Chau Mask is traditionally associated with this age old dance form of Purulia, where the performers wear masks of different mythological characters and also different animals.

The masks are made from paper pulp, mud and clay. First the outline shape on the mud is created. then the ultimate shape of the muddy layer is given with the wooden structure. After drying that under the sun it is covered with the white ash dust layer before the pulp paper layering with the glue. It helps to remain separated after drying of the paper layer under the sun. The Hard paper layer with a thin mud layer on it is painted in attractive shades with the acrylic colours usually brought from the Barabazar area of Kolkata. The masks are of different shapes and sizes starting from small to large one.

At present the Mask Making Industry is not only bounded in the traditional old mask making culture for the chau dance artist. The mask making artist are now being skilled of making various size and shape masks for Ineterior Decoration. Some artist are also making masks with modern painting styles.

THE STARTING OF CHAU MASK VILLAGE

Around 150 years ago during the rule of King Madan Mohan Singh Deo of Bagmundi the tradition of making chau masks started in the CHARIDA village of Purulia. Presently there are around 300 traditional Artists in the village known as "SUTRADHAR" community.

#chau #ChauMask #ChauMukhosh #mask #mukhosh #banglanatakdotcom #UNESCO #ruralart #WestBengal #India #Indianart #art #artist #ruralartist #Bengal #bengalart #bengalartist #homemadeart #Charida #charida-art #Purulia #purulia-art #purulia-artists

#shuvarthychowdhury #shuvarthychowdhuryphotography

Homemade ethnic character dolls are the main characteristic feature of NATUNGRAM village of BARDWAN district, West Bengal. The nearest Railway stations from the village are Agradeep and Katwa (1.4-1.5 km).

The dolls are carved in wood and decoratively painted by a group of rural craft persons, known as "SUTRADHARS" ( meaning 'narrator' or 'story teller'), because they make characters from ancient folklores and mythology and tell stories through their dolls.

The owl, with its unique design and colours, is the brand product of the village. On the white background of the owl is painted with the distinctive colours of red, green, yellow and black colours lines. Beside the Owl Krishna-Radha, King- Queen, Durga dolls are made in traditional way.

The dolls are craved from one single piece of wood. A big piece of cylindrical woood is cut off in every direction according to the size, shape and figure requirement. Then to give it a final shape the structure is chiseled out. The traditional design based on culture and mythology, the richness of ideas, the brilliant combination of pure and simplicity and glamour combined with the master craftmanship of the craft artists, resulting an amazing art work. Now a days some of the wodden dolls are barnished to give them a great finishing touch for making them useful in interior decoration.

Around 60 families living in the Natungram village are involved in the Doll making. In this family craft business both men and women have key role. The doll makers are organized as a collective, 'Natungram Kastho Khodai Hastashilpa Samity'.

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© Shuvarthy Chowdhury Photography

Wooden Doll Village-Natungram, Burdwan - 2015

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#natungram #katherputul #putul #doll #woodendoll #Bardwan #argyadeep #katwa #argyadeepraiwaystation #hostoshilpo #haterkaj #artofhand #handofart #banglanatakdotcom #UNESCO #ruralart #WestBengal #India #Indianart #art #artist #ruralartist #Bengal #bengalart #bengalartist #homemadeart

#shuvarthychowdhury #shuvarthychowdhuryphotography #villageart #villageartist #burdwanart #burdwanartist #art #artist #kutirshilpo

tried to shoot the chau dance at charida from a different angle. First found a temple under construction near the stage performance. after entering into the temple just found all over bamboo supported roof and was too risky to shoot as in the temple no slippers or footwears are not allowed. I was allowed to enter the temple in naked feet and with my camera and a lense (18-55mm). I took some shot from the viewer's angle. I have shot chau dance in many places but it was the unique attempt to me for the first time.

----------------------------------------

© Shuvarthy Chowdhury Photography

LOCATION-- Charida, Purulia, West Bengal- 2015

CHAU MASK - INTRODUCTION

Chau dance an acrobatic martial danc e form of Purulia.It has been already enlisted in the UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Huminity.Chau is indegenous part of Eastern India. It originated as a martial art and contains vigorous movements and leaps. The barren land Purulia with its tribal inhabitants and multilayered influences of vedic literature, Hinduism and Martial Folk-lore have all combined to shape the PURULIA CHAU DANCE which has only one message - The triumph of good over evil.

The Purulia Chau dancers wear large stylized masks while performing chau dance. The Chau Mask is traditionally associated with this age old dance form of Purulia, where the performers wear masks of different mythological characters and also different animals.

The masks are made from paper pulp, mud and clay. First the outline shape on the mud is created. then the ultimate shape of the muddy layer is given with the wooden structure. After drying that under the sun it is covered with the white ash dust layer before the pulp paper layering with the glue. It helps to remain separated after drying of the paper layer under the sun. The Hard paper layer with a thin mud layer on it is painted in attractive shades with the acrylic colours usually brought from the Barabazar area of Kolkata. The masks are of different shapes and sizes starting from small to large one.

At present the Mask Making Industry is not only bounded in the traditional old mask making culture for the chau dance artist. The mask making artist are now being skilled of making various size and shape masks for Ineterior Decoration. Some artist are also making masks with modern painting styles.

THE STARTING OF CHAU MASK VILLAGE

Around 150 years ago during the rule of King Madan Mohan Singh Deo of Bagmundi the tradition of making chau masks started in the CHARIDA village of Purulia. Presently there are around 300 traditional Artists in the village known as "SUTRADHAR" community.

#chau #ChauMask #ChauMukhosh #mask #mukhosh #banglanatakdotcom #UNESCO #ruralart #WestBengal #India #Indianart #art #artist #ruralartist #Bengal #bengalart #bengalartist #homemadeart #Charida #charida-art #Purulia #purulia-art #purulia-artists

#shuvarthychowdhury #shuvarthychowdhuryphotography

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

tried to shoot the chau dance at charida from a different angle. First found a temple under construction near the stage performance. after entering into the temple just found all over bamboo supported roof and was too risky to shoot as in the temple no slippers or footwears are not allowed. I was allowed to enter the temple in naked feet and with my camera and a lense (18-55mm). I took some shot from the viewer's angle. I have shot chau dance in many places but it was the unique attempt to me for the first time.

----------------------------------------

© Shuvarthy Chowdhury Photography

LOCATION-- Charida, Purulia, West Bengal- 2015

CHAU MASK - INTRODUCTION

Chau dance an acrobatic martial danc e form of Purulia.It has been already enlisted in the UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Huminity.Chau is indegenous part of Eastern India. It originated as a martial art and contains vigorous movements and leaps. The barren land Purulia with its tribal inhabitants and multilayered influences of vedic literature, Hinduism and Martial Folk-lore have all combined to shape the PURULIA CHAU DANCE which has only one message - The triumph of good over evil.

The Purulia Chau dancers wear large stylized masks while performing chau dance. The Chau Mask is traditionally associated with this age old dance form of Purulia, where the performers wear masks of different mythological characters and also different animals.

The masks are made from paper pulp, mud and clay. First the outline shape on the mud is created. then the ultimate shape of the muddy layer is given with the wooden structure. After drying that under the sun it is covered with the white ash dust layer before the pulp paper layering with the glue. It helps to remain separated after drying of the paper layer under the sun. The Hard paper layer with a thin mud layer on it is painted in attractive shades with the acrylic colours usually brought from the Barabazar area of Kolkata. The masks are of different shapes and sizes starting from small to large one.

At present the Mask Making Industry is not only bounded in the traditional old mask making culture for the chau dance artist. The mask making artist are now being skilled of making various size and shape masks for Ineterior Decoration. Some artist are also making masks with modern painting styles.

THE STARTING OF CHAU MASK VILLAGE

Around 150 years ago during the rule of King Madan Mohan Singh Deo of Bagmundi the tradition of making chau masks started in the CHARIDA village of Purulia. Presently there are around 300 traditional Artists in the village known as "SUTRADHAR" community.

#chau #ChauMask #ChauMukhosh #mask #mukhosh #banglanatakdotcom #UNESCO #ruralart #WestBengal #India #Indianart #art #artist #ruralartist #Bengal #bengalart #bengalartist #homemadeart #Charida #charida-art #Purulia #purulia-art #purulia-artists

#shuvarthychowdhury #shuvarthychowdhuryphotography

© Shuvarthy Chowdhury Photography

LOCATION-- Charida, Purulia, West Bengal- 2015

CHAU MASK - INTRODUCTION

Chau dance an acrobatic martial danc e form of Purulia.It has been already enlisted in the UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Huminity.Chau is indegenous part of Eastern India. It originated as a martial art and contains vigorous movements and leaps. The barren land Purulia with its tribal inhabitants and multilayered influences of vedic literature, Hinduism and Martial Folk-lore have all combined to shape the PURULIA CHAU DANCE which has only one message - The triumph of good over evil.

The Purulia Chau dancers wear large stylized masks while performing chau dance. The Chau Mask is traditionally associated with this age old dance form of Purulia, where the performers wear masks of different mythological characters and also different animals.

The masks are made from paper pulp, mud and clay. First the outline shape on the mud is created. then the ultimate shape of the muddy layer is given with the wooden structure. After drying that under the sun it is covered with the white ash dust layer before the pulp paper layering with the glue. It helps to remain separated after drying of the paper laye under the sun. The Hard paper layer with a thin mud layer on it is painted in attractive shades with the acrylic colours usually brought from the Barabazar area of Kolkata. The masks are of different shapes and sizes starting from small to large one.

At present the Mask Making Industry is not only bounded in the traditional old mask making culture for the chau dance artist. The mask making artist are now being skilled of making various size and shape masks for Ineterior Decoration. Some artist are also making masks with modern painting styles.

THE STARTING OF CHAU MASK VILLAGE

Around 150 years ago during the rule of King Madan Mohan Singh Deo of Bagmundi the tradition of making chau masks started in the CHARIDA village of Purulia. Presently there are around 300 traditional Artists in the village known as "SUTRADHAR" community.

#chau #ChauMask #ChauMukhosh #mask #mukhosh #banglanatakdotcom #UNESCO #ruralart #WestBengal #India #Indianart #art #artist #ruralartist #Bengal #bengalart #bengalartist #homemadeart #Charida #charida-art #Purulia #purulia-art #purulia-artists

#shuvarthychowdhury #shuvarthychowdhuryphotography

© Shuvarthy Chowdhury Photography

LOCATION-- Charida, Purulia, West Bengal- 2015

CHAU MASK - INTRODUCTION

Chau dance an acrobatic martial danc e form of Purulia.It has been already enlisted in the UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Huminity.Chau is indegenous part of Eastern India. It originated as a martial art and contains vigorous movements and leaps. The barren land Purulia with its tribal inhabitants and multilayered influences of vedic literature, Hinduism and Martial Folk-lore have all combined to shape the PURULIA CHAU DANCE which has only one message - The triumph of good over evil.

The Purulia Chau dancers wear large stylized masks while performing chau dance. The Chau Mask is traditionally associated with this age old dance form of Purulia, where the performers wear masks of different mythological characters and also different animals.

The masks are made from paper pulp, mud and clay. First the outline shape on the mud is created. then the ultimate shape of the muddy layer is given with the wooden structure. After drying that under the sun it is covered with the white ash dust layer before the pulp paper layering with the glue. It helps to remain separated after drying of the paper laye under the sun. The Hard paper layer with a thin mud layer on it is painted in attractive shades with the acrylic colours usually brought from the Barabazar area of Kolkata. The masks are of different shapes and sizes starting from small to large one.

At present the Mask Making Industry is not only bounded in the traditional old mask making culture for the chau dance artist. The mask making artist are now being skilled of making various size and shape masks for Ineterior Decoration. Some artist are also making masks with modern painting styles.

THE STARTING OF CHAU MASK VILLAGE

Around 150 years ago during the rule of King Madan Mohan Singh Deo of Bagmundi the tradition of making chau masks started in the CHARIDA village of Purulia. Presently there are around 300 traditional Artists in the village known as "SUTRADHAR" community.

#chau #ChauMask #ChauMukhosh #mask #mukhosh #banglanatakdotcom #UNESCO #ruralart #WestBengal #India #Indianart #art #artist #ruralartist #Bengal #bengalart #bengalartist #homemadeart #Charida #charida-art #Purulia #purulia-art #purulia-artists

#shuvarthychowdhury #shuvarthychowdhuryphotography

© Shuvarthy Chowdhury Photography

LOCATION-- Charida, Purulia, West Bengal- 2015

CHAU MASK - INTRODUCTION

Chau dance an acrobatic martial danc e form of Purulia.It has been already enlisted in the UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Huminity.Chau is indegenous part of Eastern India. It originated as a martial art and contains vigorous movements and leaps. The barren land Purulia with its tribal inhabitants and multilayered influences of vedic literature, Hinduism and Martial Folk-lore have all combined to shape the PURULIA CHAU DANCE which has only one message - The triumph of good over evil.

The Purulia Chau dancers wear large stylized masks while performing chau dance. The Chau Mask is traditionally associated with this age old dance form of Purulia, where the performers wear masks of different mythological characters and also different animals.

The masks are made from paper pulp, mud and clay. First the outline shape on the mud is created. then the ultimate shape of the muddy layer is given with the wooden structure. After drying that under the sun it is covered with the white ash dust layer before the pulp paper layering with the glue. It helps to remain separated after drying of the paper laye under the sun. The Hard paper layer with a thin mud layer on it is painted in attractive shades with the acrylic colours usually brought from the Barabazar area of Kolkata. The masks are of different shapes and sizes starting from small to large one.

At present the Mask Making Industry is not only bounded in the traditional old mask making culture for the chau dance artist. The mask making artist are now being skilled of making various size and shape masks for Ineterior Decoration. Some artist are also making masks with modern painting styles.

THE STARTING OF CHAU MASK VILLAGE

Around 150 years ago during the rule of King Madan Mohan Singh Deo of Bagmundi the tradition of making chau masks started in the CHARIDA village of Purulia. Presently there are around 300 traditional Artists in the village known as "SUTRADHAR" community.

#chau #ChauMask #ChauMukhosh #mask #mukhosh #banglanatakdotcom #UNESCO #ruralart #WestBengal #India #Indianart #art #artist #ruralartist #Bengal #bengalart #bengalartist #homemadeart #Charida #charida-art #Purulia #purulia-art #purulia-artists

#shuvarthychowdhury #shuvarthychowdhuryphotography

© Shuvarthy Chowdhury Photography

LOCATION-- Charida, Purulia, West Bengal- 2015

CHAU MASK - INTRODUCTION

Chau dance an acrobatic martial danc e form of Purulia.It has been already enlisted in the UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Huminity.Chau is indegenous part of Eastern India. It originated as a martial art and contains vigorous movements and leaps. The barren land Purulia with its tribal inhabitants and multilayered influences of vedic literature, Hinduism and Martial Folk-lore have all combined to shape the PURULIA CHAU DANCE which has only one message - The triumph of good over evil.

The Purulia Chau dancers wear large stylized masks while performing chau dance. The Chau Mask is traditionally associated with this age old dance form of Purulia, where the performers wear masks of different mythological characters and also different animals.

The masks are made from paper pulp, mud and clay. First the outline shape on the mud is created. then the ultimate shape of the muddy layer is given with the wooden structure. After drying that under the sun it is covered with the white ash dust layer before the pulp paper layering with the glue. It helps to remain separated after drying of the paper laye under the sun. The Hard paper layer with a thin mud layer on it is painted in attractive shades with the acrylic colours usually brought from the Barabazar area of Kolkata. The masks are of different shapes and sizes starting from small to large one.

At present the Mask Making Industry is not only bounded in the traditional old mask making culture for the chau dance artist. The mask making artist are now being skilled of making various size and shape masks for Ineterior Decoration. Some artist are also making masks with modern painting styles.

THE STARTING OF CHAU MASK VILLAGE

Around 150 years ago during the rule of King Madan Mohan Singh Deo of Bagmundi the tradition of making chau masks started in the CHARIDA village of Purulia. Presently there are around 300 traditional Artists in the village known as "SUTRADHAR" community.

#chau #ChauMask #ChauMukhosh #mask #mukhosh #banglanatakdotcom #UNESCO #ruralart #WestBengal #India #Indianart #art #artist #ruralartist #Bengal #bengalart #bengalartist #homemadeart #Charida #charida-art #Purulia #purulia-art #purulia-artists

#shuvarthychowdhury #shuvarthychowdhuryphotography

© Shuvarthy Chowdhury Photography

LOCATION-- Charida, Purulia, West Bengal- 2015

CHAU MASK - INTRODUCTION

Chau dance an acrobatic martial danc e form of Purulia.It has been already enlisted in the UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Huminity.Chau is indegenous part of Eastern India. It originated as a martial art and contains vigorous movements and leaps. The barren land Purulia with its tribal inhabitants and multilayered influences of vedic literature, Hinduism and Martial Folk-lore have all combined to shape the PURULIA CHAU DANCE which has only one message - The triumph of good over evil.

The Purulia Chau dancers wear large stylized masks while performing chau dance. The Chau Mask is traditionally associated with this age old dance form of Purulia, where the performers wear masks of different mythological characters and also different animals.

The masks are made from paper pulp, mud and clay. First the outline shape on the mud is created. then the ultimate shape of the muddy layer is given with the wooden structure. After drying that under the sun it is covered with the white ash dust layer before the pulp paper layering with the glue. It helps to remain separated after drying of the paper laye under the sun. The Hard paper layer with a thin mud layer on it is painted in attractive shades with the acrylic colours usually brought from the Barabazar area of Kolkata. The masks are of different shapes and sizes starting from small to large one.

At present the Mask Making Industry is not only bounded in the traditional old mask making culture for the chau dance artist. The mask making artist are now being skilled of making various size and shape masks for Ineterior Decoration. Some artist are also making masks with modern painting styles.

THE STARTING OF CHAU MASK VILLAGE

Around 150 years ago during the rule of King Madan Mohan Singh Deo of Bagmundi the tradition of making chau masks started in the CHARIDA village of Purulia. Presently there are around 300 traditional Artists in the village known as "SUTRADHAR" community.

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LOCATION-- Charida, Purulia, West Bengal- 2015

CHAU MASK - INTRODUCTION

Chau dance an acrobatic martial danc e form of Purulia.It has been already enlisted in the UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Huminity.Chau is indegenous part of Eastern India. It originated as a martial art and contains vigorous movements and leaps. The barren land Purulia with its tribal inhabitants and multilayered influences of vedic literature, Hinduism and Martial Folk-lore have all combined to shape the PURULIA CHAU DANCE which has only one message - The triumph of good over evil.

The Purulia Chau dancers wear large stylized masks while performing chau dance. The Chau Mask is traditionally associated with this age old dance form of Purulia, where the performers wear masks of different mythological characters and also different animals.

The masks are made from paper pulp, mud and clay. First the outline shape on the mud is created. then the ultimate shape of the muddy layer is given with the wooden structure. After drying that under the sun it is covered with the white ash dust layer before the pulp paper layering with the glue. It helps to remain separated after drying of the paper laye under the sun. The Hard paper layer with a thin mud layer on it is painted in attractive shades with the acrylic colours usually brought from the Barabazar area of Kolkata. The masks are of different shapes and sizes starting from small to large one.

At present the Mask Making Industry is not only bounded in the traditional old mask making culture for the chau dance artist. The mask making artist are now being skilled of making various size and shape masks for Ineterior Decoration. Some artist are also making masks with modern painting styles.

THE STARTING OF CHAU MASK VILLAGE

Around 150 years ago during the rule of King Madan Mohan Singh Deo of Bagmundi the tradition of making chau masks started in the CHARIDA village of Purulia. Presently there are around 300 traditional Artists in the village known as "SUTRADHAR" community.

#chau #ChauMask #ChauMukhosh #mask #mukhosh #banglanatakdotcom #UNESCO #ruralart #WestBengal #India #Indianart #art #artist #ruralartist #Bengal #bengalart #bengalartist #homemadeart #Charida #charida-art #Purulia #purulia-art #purulia-artists

#shuvarthychowdhury #shuvarthychowdhuryphotography

© Shuvarthy Chowdhury Photography

LOCATION-- Charida, Purulia, West Bengal- 2015

CHAU MASK - INTRODUCTION

Chau dance an acrobatic martial danc e form of Purulia.It has been already enlisted in the UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Huminity.Chau is indegenous part of Eastern India. It originated as a martial art and contains vigorous movements and leaps. The barren land Purulia with its tribal inhabitants and multilayered influences of vedic literature, Hinduism and Martial Folk-lore have all combined to shape the PURULIA CHAU DANCE which has only one message - The triumph of good over evil.

The Purulia Chau dancers wear large stylized masks while performing chau dance. The Chau Mask is traditionally associated with this age old dance form of Purulia, where the performers wear masks of different mythological characters and also different animals.

The masks are made from paper pulp, mud and clay. First the outline shape on the mud is created. then the ultimate shape of the muddy layer is given with the wooden structure. After drying that under the sun it is covered with the white ash dust layer before the pulp paper layering with the glue. It helps to remain separated after drying of the paper laye under the sun. The Hard paper layer with a thin mud layer on it is painted in attractive shades with the acrylic colours usually brought from the Barabazar area of Kolkata. The masks are of different shapes and sizes starting from small to large one.

At present the Mask Making Industry is not only bounded in the traditional old mask making culture for the chau dance artist. The mask making artist are now being skilled of making various size and shape masks for Ineterior Decoration. Some artist are also making masks with modern painting styles.

THE STARTING OF CHAU MASK VILLAGE

Around 150 years ago during the rule of King Madan Mohan Singh Deo of Bagmundi the tradition of making chau masks started in the CHARIDA village of Purulia. Presently there are around 300 traditional Artists in the village known as "SUTRADHAR" community.

#chau #ChauMask #ChauMukhosh #mask #mukhosh #banglanatakdotcom #UNESCO #ruralart #WestBengal #India #Indianart #art #artist #ruralartist #Bengal #bengalart #bengalartist #homemadeart #Charida #charida-art #Purulia #purulia-art #purulia-artists

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Homemade ethnic character dolls are the main characteristic feature of NATUNGRAM village of BARDWAN district, West Bengal. The nearest Railway stations from the village are Agradeep and Katwa (1.4-1.5 km).

The dolls are carved in wood and decoratively painted by a group of rural craft persons, known as "SUTRADHARS" ( meaning 'narrator' or 'story teller'), because they make characters from ancient folklores and mythology and tell stories through their dolls.

The owl, with its unique design and colours, is the brand product of the village. On the white background of the owl is painted with the distinctive colours of red, green, yellow and black colours lines. Beside the Owl Krishna-Radha, King- Queen, Durga dolls are made in traditional way.

The dolls are craved from one single piece of wood. A big piece of cylindrical woood is cut off in every direction according to the size, shape and figure requirement. Then to give it a final shape the structure is chiseled out. The traditional design based on culture and mythology, the richness of ideas, the brilliant combination of pure and simplicity and glamour combined with the master craftmanship of the craft artists, resulting an amazing art work. Now a days some of the wodden dolls are barnished to give them a great finishing touch for making them useful in interior decoration.

Around 60 families living in the Natungram village are involved in the Doll making. In this family craft business both men and women have key role. The doll makers are organized as a collective, 'Natungram Kastho Khodai Hastashilpa Samity'.

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Wooden Doll Village-Natungram, Burdwan - 2015

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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

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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

© Shuvarthy Chowdhury Photography

LOCATION-- Charida, Purulia, West Bengal- 2015

CHAU MASK - INTRODUCTION

Chau dance an acrobatic martial danc e form of Purulia.It has been already enlisted in the UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Huminity.Chau is indegenous part of Eastern India. It originated as a martial art and contains vigorous movements and leaps. The barren land Purulia with its tribal inhabitants and multilayered influences of vedic literature, Hinduism and Martial Folk-lore have all combined to shape the PURULIA CHAU DANCE which has only one message - The triumph of good over evil.

The Purulia Chau dancers wear large stylized masks while performing chau dance. The Chau Mask is traditionally associated with this age old dance form of Purulia, where the performers wear masks of different mythological characters and also different animals.

The masks are made from paper pulp, mud and clay. First the outline shape on the mud is created. then the ultimate shape of the muddy layer is given with the wooden structure. After drying that under the sun it is covered with the white ash dust layer before the pulp paper layering with the glue. It helps to remain separated after drying of the paper laye under the sun. The Hard paper layer with a thin mud layer on it is painted in attractive shades with the acrylic colours usually brought from the Barabazar area of Kolkata. The masks are of different shapes and sizes starting from small to large one.

At present the Mask Making Industry is not only bounded in the traditional old mask making culture for the chau dance artist. The mask making artist are now being skilled of making various size and shape masks for Ineterior Decoration. Some artist are also making masks with modern painting styles.

THE STARTING OF CHAU MASK VILLAGE

Around 150 years ago during the rule of King Madan Mohan Singh Deo of Bagmundi the tradition of making chau masks started in the CHARIDA village of Purulia. Presently there are around 300 traditional Artists in the village known as "SUTRADHAR" community.

#chau #ChauMask #ChauMukhosh #mask #mukhosh #banglanatakdotcom #UNESCO #ruralart #WestBengal #India #Indianart #art #artist #ruralartist #Bengal #bengalart #bengalartist #homemadeart #Charida #charida-art #Purulia #purulia-art #purulia-artists

#shuvarthychowdhury #shuvarthychowdhuryphotography

© Shuvarthy Chowdhury Photography

LOCATION-- Charida, Purulia, West Bengal- 2015

CHAU MASK - INTRODUCTION

Chau dance an acrobatic martial danc e form of Purulia.It has been already enlisted in the UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Huminity.Chau is indegenous part of Eastern India. It originated as a martial art and contains vigorous movements and leaps. The barren land Purulia with its tribal inhabitants and multilayered influences of vedic literature, Hinduism and Martial Folk-lore have all combined to shape the PURULIA CHAU DANCE which has only one message - The triumph of good over evil.

The Purulia Chau dancers wear large stylized masks while performing chau dance. The Chau Mask is traditionally associated with this age old dance form of Purulia, where the performers wear masks of different mythological characters and also different animals.

The masks are made from paper pulp, mud and clay. First the outline shape on the mud is created. then the ultimate shape of the muddy layer is given with the wooden structure. After drying that under the sun it is covered with the white ash dust layer before the pulp paper layering with the glue. It helps to remain separated after drying of the paper laye under the sun. The Hard paper layer with a thin mud layer on it is painted in attractive shades with the acrylic colours usually brought from the Barabazar area of Kolkata. The masks are of different shapes and sizes starting from small to large one.

At present the Mask Making Industry is not only bounded in the traditional old mask making culture for the chau dance artist. The mask making artist are now being skilled of making various size and shape masks for Ineterior Decoration. Some artist are also making masks with modern painting styles.

THE STARTING OF CHAU MASK VILLAGE

Around 150 years ago during the rule of King Madan Mohan Singh Deo of Bagmundi the tradition of making chau masks started in the CHARIDA village of Purulia. Presently there are around 300 traditional Artists in the village known as "SUTRADHAR" community.

#chau #ChauMask #ChauMukhosh #mask #mukhosh #banglanatakdotcom #UNESCO #ruralart #WestBengal #India #Indianart #art #artist #ruralartist #Bengal #bengalart #bengalartist #homemadeart #Charida #charida-art #Purulia #purulia-art #purulia-artists

#shuvarthychowdhury #shuvarthychowdhuryphotography

© Shuvarthy Chowdhury Photography

LOCATION-- Charida, Purulia, West Bengal- 2015

CHAU MASK - INTRODUCTION

Chau dance an acrobatic martial danc e form of Purulia.It has been already enlisted in the UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Huminity.Chau is indegenous part of Eastern India. It originated as a martial art and contains vigorous movements and leaps. The barren land Purulia with its tribal inhabitants and multilayered influences of vedic literature, Hinduism and Martial Folk-lore have all combined to shape the PURULIA CHAU DANCE which has only one message - The triumph of good over evil.

The Purulia Chau dancers wear large stylized masks while performing chau dance. The Chau Mask is traditionally associated with this age old dance form of Purulia, where the performers wear masks of different mythological characters and also different animals.

The masks are made from paper pulp, mud and clay. First the outline shape on the mud is created. then the ultimate shape of the muddy layer is given with the wooden structure. After drying that under the sun it is covered with the white ash dust layer before the pulp paper layering with the glue. It helps to remain separated after drying of the paper laye under the sun. The Hard paper layer with a thin mud layer on it is painted in attractive shades with the acrylic colours usually brought from the Barabazar area of Kolkata. The masks are of different shapes and sizes starting from small to large one.

At present the Mask Making Industry is not only bounded in the traditional old mask making culture for the chau dance artist. The mask making artist are now being skilled of making various size and shape masks for Ineterior Decoration. Some artist are also making masks with modern painting styles.

THE STARTING OF CHAU MASK VILLAGE

Around 150 years ago during the rule of King Madan Mohan Singh Deo of Bagmundi the tradition of making chau masks started in the CHARIDA village of Purulia. Presently there are around 300 traditional Artists in the village known as "SUTRADHAR" community.

#chau #ChauMask #ChauMukhosh #mask #mukhosh #banglanatakdotcom #UNESCO #ruralart #WestBengal #India #Indianart #art #artist #ruralartist #Bengal #bengalart #bengalartist #homemadeart #Charida #charida-art #Purulia #purulia-art #purulia-artists

#shuvarthychowdhury #shuvarthychowdhuryphotography

© Shuvarthy Chowdhury Photography

LOCATION-- Charida, Purulia, West Bengal- 2015

CHAU MASK - INTRODUCTION

Chau dance an acrobatic martial danc e form of Purulia.It has been already enlisted in the UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Huminity.Chau is indegenous part of Eastern India. It originated as a martial art and contains vigorous movements and leaps. The barren land Purulia with its tribal inhabitants and multilayered influences of vedic literature, Hinduism and Martial Folk-lore have all combined to shape the PURULIA CHAU DANCE which has only one message - The triumph of good over evil.

The Purulia Chau dancers wear large stylized masks while performing chau dance. The Chau Mask is traditionally associated with this age old dance form of Purulia, where the performers wear masks of different mythological characters and also different animals.

The masks are made from paper pulp, mud and clay. First the outline shape on the mud is created. then the ultimate shape of the muddy layer is given with the wooden structure. After drying that under the sun it is covered with the white ash dust layer before the pulp paper layering with the glue. It helps to remain separated after drying of the paper laye under the sun. The Hard paper layer with a thin mud layer on it is painted in attractive shades with the acrylic colours usually brought from the Barabazar area of Kolkata. The masks are of different shapes and sizes starting from small to large one.

At present the Mask Making Industry is not only bounded in the traditional old mask making culture for the chau dance artist. The mask making artist are now being skilled of making various size and shape masks for Ineterior Decoration. Some artist are also making masks with modern painting styles.

THE STARTING OF CHAU MASK VILLAGE

Around 150 years ago during the rule of King Madan Mohan Singh Deo of Bagmundi the tradition of making chau masks started in the CHARIDA village of Purulia. Presently there are around 300 traditional Artists in the village known as "SUTRADHAR" community.

#chau #ChauMask #ChauMukhosh #mask #mukhosh #banglanatakdotcom #UNESCO #ruralart #WestBengal #India #Indianart #art #artist #ruralartist #Bengal #bengalart #bengalartist #homemadeart #Charida #charida-art #Purulia #purulia-art #purulia-artists

#shuvarthychowdhury #shuvarthychowdhuryphotography

© Shuvarthy Chowdhury Photography

LOCATION-- Charida, Purulia, West Bengal- 2015

CHAU MASK - INTRODUCTION

Chau dance an acrobatic martial danc e form of Purulia.It has been already enlisted in the UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Huminity.Chau is indegenous part of Eastern India. It originated as a martial art and contains vigorous movements and leaps. The barren land Purulia with its tribal inhabitants and multilayered influences of vedic literature, Hinduism and Martial Folk-lore have all combined to shape the PURULIA CHAU DANCE which has only one message - The triumph of good over evil.

The Purulia Chau dancers wear large stylized masks while performing chau dance. The Chau Mask is traditionally associated with this age old dance form of Purulia, where the performers wear masks of different mythological characters and also different animals.

The masks are made from paper pulp, mud and clay. First the outline shape on the mud is created. then the ultimate shape of the muddy layer is given with the wooden structure. After drying that under the sun it is covered with the white ash dust layer before the pulp paper layering with the glue. It helps to remain separated after drying of the paper laye under the sun. The Hard paper layer with a thin mud layer on it is painted in attractive shades with the acrylic colours usually brought from the Barabazar area of Kolkata. The masks are of different shapes and sizes starting from small to large one.

At present the Mask Making Industry is not only bounded in the traditional old mask making culture for the chau dance artist. The mask making artist are now being skilled of making various size and shape masks for Ineterior Decoration. Some artist are also making masks with modern painting styles.

THE STARTING OF CHAU MASK VILLAGE

Around 150 years ago during the rule of King Madan Mohan Singh Deo of Bagmundi the tradition of making chau masks started in the CHARIDA village of Purulia. Presently there are around 300 traditional Artists in the village known as "SUTRADHAR" community.

#chau #ChauMask #ChauMukhosh #mask #mukhosh #banglanatakdotcom #UNESCO #ruralart #WestBengal #India #Indianart #art #artist #ruralartist #Bengal #bengalart #bengalartist #homemadeart #Charida #charida-art #Purulia #purulia-art #purulia-artists

#shuvarthychowdhury #shuvarthychowdhuryphotography

© Shuvarthy Chowdhury Photography

LOCATION-- Charida, Purulia, West Bengal- 2015

CHAU MASK - INTRODUCTION

Chau dance an acrobatic martial danc e form of Purulia.It has been already enlisted in the UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Huminity.Chau is indegenous part of Eastern India. It originated as a martial art and contains vigorous movements and leaps. The barren land Purulia with its tribal inhabitants and multilayered influences of vedic literature, Hinduism and Martial Folk-lore have all combined to shape the PURULIA CHAU DANCE which has only one message - The triumph of good over evil.

The Purulia Chau dancers wear large stylized masks while performing chau dance. The Chau Mask is traditionally associated with this age old dance form of Purulia, where the performers wear masks of different mythological characters and also different animals.

The masks are made from paper pulp, mud and clay. First the outline shape on the mud is created. then the ultimate shape of the muddy layer is given with the wooden structure. After drying that under the sun it is covered with the white ash dust layer before the pulp paper layering with the glue. It helps to remain separated after drying of the paper laye under the sun. The Hard paper layer with a thin mud layer on it is painted in attractive shades with the acrylic colours usually brought from the Barabazar area of Kolkata. The masks are of different shapes and sizes starting from small to large one.

At present the Mask Making Industry is not only bounded in the traditional old mask making culture for the chau dance artist. The mask making artist are now being skilled of making various size and shape masks for Ineterior Decoration. Some artist are also making masks with modern painting styles.

THE STARTING OF CHAU MASK VILLAGE

Around 150 years ago during the rule of King Madan Mohan Singh Deo of Bagmundi the tradition of making chau masks started in the CHARIDA village of Purulia. Presently there are around 300 traditional Artists in the village known as "SUTRADHAR" community.

#chau #ChauMask #ChauMukhosh #mask #mukhosh #banglanatakdotcom #UNESCO #ruralart #WestBengal #India #Indianart #art #artist #ruralartist #Bengal #bengalart #bengalartist #homemadeart #Charida #charida-art #Purulia #purulia-art #purulia-artists

#shuvarthychowdhury #shuvarthychowdhuryphotography

© Shuvarthy Chowdhury Photography

LOCATION-- Charida, Purulia, West Bengal- 2015

CHAU MASK - INTRODUCTION

Chau dance an acrobatic martial danc e form of Purulia.It has been already enlisted in the UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Huminity.Chau is indegenous part of Eastern India. It originated as a martial art and contains vigorous movements and leaps. The barren land Purulia with its tribal inhabitants and multilayered influences of vedic literature, Hinduism and Martial Folk-lore have all combined to shape the PURULIA CHAU DANCE which has only one message - The triumph of good over evil.

The Purulia Chau dancers wear large stylized masks while performing chau dance. The Chau Mask is traditionally associated with this age old dance form of Purulia, where the performers wear masks of different mythological characters and also different animals.

The masks are made from paper pulp, mud and clay. First the outline shape on the mud is created. then the ultimate shape of the muddy layer is given with the wooden structure. After drying that under the sun it is covered with the white ash dust layer before the pulp paper layering with the glue. It helps to remain separated after drying of the paper laye under the sun. The Hard paper layer with a thin mud layer on it is painted in attractive shades with the acrylic colours usually brought from the Barabazar area of Kolkata. The masks are of different shapes and sizes starting from small to large one.

At present the Mask Making Industry is not only bounded in the traditional old mask making culture for the chau dance artist. The mask making artist are now being skilled of making various size and shape masks for Ineterior Decoration. Some artist are also making masks with modern painting styles.

THE STARTING OF CHAU MASK VILLAGE

Around 150 years ago during the rule of King Madan Mohan Singh Deo of Bagmundi the tradition of making chau masks started in the CHARIDA village of Purulia. Presently there are around 300 traditional Artists in the village known as "SUTRADHAR" community.

#chau #ChauMask #ChauMukhosh #mask #mukhosh #banglanatakdotcom #UNESCO #ruralart #WestBengal #India #Indianart #art #artist #ruralartist #Bengal #bengalart #bengalartist #homemadeart #Charida #charida-art #Purulia #purulia-art #purulia-artists

#shuvarthychowdhury #shuvarthychowdhuryphotography