Kalamkari -Traditional Indian painting

Art educators often venture to different topics on the hunt for arti...stic exemplars. This time I found a one more beautiful Indian Painting for my weekly post…Hence doing my research about Indian Paintings i tried the contemporary elegant Kalamkari Painting.. Kalamkari means painting with a pen. It is an elegant textile art form. This art is originated on the period of alliance between the Persian and Indian trade merchants . ‘Kalam’ is the Persian word for pen, and ‘kari’ in Urdu implies the craftsmanship involved. Hence, ‘Kalamkari’ denotes the myriad manifestations of hand painted textiles with natural dyes. The pen is a piece of bamboo or date-palm stick, shaped and pointed at its end to form a nib. Created without the use of chemicals or machine Kalamkari art is entirely a handicraft using natural or vegetable dyes and metallic salts called mordants to fix the dye into the cotton fibers. The Kalamkari works are mostly produced in the small towns of Kalahasti, Machilipatnam and other interior regions of Andhra Pradesh by rural craftsmen and women, and is a household occupation passed from generation to generation as heritage. The two main centres of the kalamkari work production are, Kalahasti and Machilipatnam. The vibrant yellow, indigo, red, and green.Each finished work is specifically personal, original, and unique. For more art related information stay tuned with SMART ”R” ARTS… Be SMART with ARTS Ramalakshmi