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Pattachitra: A Spectacular Art Form From Odisha

Pattachitra is a traditional art form originating from Odisha that involves painting narratives from Hindu mythology onto treated cotton cloth using natural colors. For over 1000 years, the villagers of Raghurajpur have practiced creating pattachitra paintings and palm leaf engravings, with techniques passed down generationally. Women prepare the canvas and apply colors, while the chitrakara artist draws the initial lines and provides final touches. Various colors like white, red, black, yellow and blue are made from natural sources like shells, minerals and plants. Popular themes include deities like Jagannath as well as festivals and dances. The village of Raghurajpur is renowned for high quality pattachitra works that can

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Pattachitra: A Spectacular Art Form From Odisha

Pattachitra is a traditional art form originating from Odisha that involves painting narratives from Hindu mythology onto treated cotton cloth using natural colors. For over 1000 years, the villagers of Raghurajpur have practiced creating pattachitra paintings and palm leaf engravings, with techniques passed down generationally. Women prepare the canvas and apply colors, while the chitrakara artist draws the initial lines and provides final touches. Various colors like white, red, black, yellow and blue are made from natural sources like shells, minerals and plants. Popular themes include deities like Jagannath as well as festivals and dances. The village of Raghurajpur is renowned for high quality pattachitra works that can

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PATTACHITRA

A SPECTACULAR ART FORM FROM ODISHA


Pattachitra has evolved from the Sanskrit
words patta, meaning canvas, and chitra, meaning
picture
For generations, the inhabitants of
Raghurajpur village are narrating mythological
stories through their world famous paintings-
pattachitra and palm-leaf engraving

An ancient form of painting made on


‘treated’ piece of cotton cloth using
natural colours

Paintings on cloths are pattachitras


and the carvings on palm leaf are
pothi chitras
The traditions of Pattachitra paintings are more than
thousand years, introduced in 5BC in a Raghurajpur, a
village in Puri District

Based on Hindu mythology and specially


inspired by Jagannath and Vaishnava sect

Painting on cloth ‘Patta Chitra', paintings on walls or


‘Bhitti Chitra' and palm leaf engravings or ‘Tala Patra
Chitra' or ‘Pothi Chitra’
In a family, the female members prepare the glue,
the canvas and apply colors, and give the final
lacquer coating

The chitrakara then draws the initial line


and gives the final finishing

The canvas is prepared by coating the clothing with a


mixture of chalk and gum made from tamarind seeds

Rubbed by taking the help of two different


stones and then the cloth is dried
The painters do not use pencil or charcoal
for the preliminary drawings

The final lines are drawn and the patta is given a lacquer
coating to protect it from weather, thus making the
painting glossy

The painting is held over a fireplace so that


the back of the painting is exposed to heat
White color is made Red color is made Black color is made
out of powdered out of hingula out of kajal
conch shells

Yellow color is made Blue color is made


out of harilata out of indigo
BALABHADRA SUBHADRA JAGANNATH
RATHA YATRA
SHIVA PARVATI VIVAH UTSAV
KRISHNA RAASALEELA
DEVADASI NRUTYA
PATTACHITRA ON WALL, PURI
HOME DÉCOR
HOME DÉCOR
The best of the pattachitras are available in
the village of Raghurajpur, Puri

Other places like Sonepur, Konarka, and


Bhubaneswar have also become a hub of
these ancient art forms

One of the most famous thing to buy in


world famous ‘Bali Yatra’

Readily available on websites like Amazon


THANK YOU

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