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Folk paintings depicting Ramayana to be on display | Vadodara News

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Slug: Mastering tradition
Vadodara: In a female-dominated faculty of M S University – the Faculty of Family and Community Sciences – this male student is an exception. But that’s not the only aspect that makes Aakash Sharma stand out from the rest.
Ratlam-born Sharma, who is pursuing second-year master’s interior design studies at the Department of Family and Community Resource Management (FCRM), mastered the art of Indian folk paintings. On Thursday, 25 Indian folk paintings made by Sharma will be displayed through an exhibition at the faculty. Interestingly, the folk paintings which Sharma prepared on the canvas depict different tales of the Ramayana.
From the popular Gond paintings of Madhya Pradesh (MP), the Tanjore paintings from Tamil Nadu (TN), to the Kangra folk painting form of Himachal Pradesh (HP), Sharma’s dissertation work includes folk painting, representing almost every state of the country. Each of these folk art forms depicts different tales of the Ramayana – starting from Lord Rama’s birth depicted through the Rajasthani miniature painting form to ‘Ravan Vadh’ depicted through the Kalighat folk painting form of West Bengal.
Under the guidance of Dr Sarjoo Patel, in-charge head of the FCRM department, this student even prepared a booklet that will act as an educational module on Indian folk paintings for students of interior design. “Painting is my passion. I learnt the folk painting forms by watching videos of master artisans from each and every nook of the country,” said Sharma, who even created records of sculpting the smallest eco-friendly Ganpati from soil (4 mm x 3 mm) registered in the India Book of Records in 2021.
In the same year, he created another record of the biggest sari art – a 50 feet x 50 feet portrait of Bharat Mata using 450 saris that featured in the Bravo International Book of World Records. The tales of the Ramayana which will be showcased include the ‘Kasturi Mrug’ depicted through MP’s Gond painting form, the ‘Sitamata Swayamvar’ depicted through the Madhubani painting form of Bihar, ‘Ram Darbar’ depicted through TN’s Tanjore painting, ‘Sitamata Haran’ depicted through Kalamkari painting of Andhra Pradesh, and the episode of Lord Rama’s brother Lakshman cutting the nose of Surpankha which is depicted through Pattachitra painting from Odisha.
“While I depicted tales of ‘Setu Nirman’ and ‘Ramji Ki Barat’ through the popular painting folk art forms of Maharashtra and Pithora painting form of Gujarat, I also worked on not-so-popular folk forms like the Saura folk painting form that belongs to Odisha and Sohari painting form that belongs to Jharkhand,” said Sharma. The Saura painting, for instance, depicts the battle between Lord Rama and Ravana while the Sohari painting depicts ‘Meghnath Prahar on Lakshmanji’.
“Paintings have become an integral part of interior design as they create focal points, evoke emotion, and add visual depth. Our interior design student did a lot of research on Indian folk paintings for his dissertation work and now he is displaying the rich heritage of India through the tales of the Ramayana,” said Patel.
Slug: Mastering tradition
Vadodara: In a female-dominated faculty of M S University – the Faculty of Family and Community Sciences – this male student is an exception. But that’s not the only aspect that makes Aakash Sharma stand out from the rest.
Ratlam-born Sharma, who is pursuing second-year master’s interior design studies at the Department of Family and Community Resource Management (FCRM), mastered the art of Indian folk paintings. On Thursday, 25 Indian folk paintings made by Sharma will be displayed through an exhibition at the faculty. Interestingly, the folk paintings which Sharma prepared on the canvas depict different tales of the Ramayana.
From the popular Gond paintings of Madhya Pradesh (MP), the Tanjore paintings from Tamil Nadu (TN), to the Kangra folk painting form of Himachal Pradesh (HP), Sharma’s dissertation work includes folk painting, representing almost every state of the country. Each of these folk art forms depicts different tales of the Ramayana – starting from Lord Rama’s birth depicted through the Rajasthani miniature painting form to ‘Ravan Vadh’ depicted through the Kalighat folk painting form of West Bengal.
Under the guidance of Dr Sarjoo Patel, in-charge head of the FCRM department, this student even prepared a booklet that will act as an educational module on Indian folk paintings for students of interior design. “Painting is my passion. I learnt the folk painting forms by watching videos of master artisans from each and every nook of the country,” said Sharma, who even created records of sculpting the smallest eco-friendly Ganpati from soil (4 mm x 3 mm) registered in the India Book of Records in 2021.
In the same year, he created another record of the biggest sari art – a 50 feet x 50 feet portrait of Bharat Mata using 450 saris that featured in the Bravo International Book of World Records. The tales of the Ramayana which will be showcased include the ‘Kasturi Mrug’ depicted through MP’s Gond painting form, the ‘Sitamata Swayamvar’ depicted through the Madhubani painting form of Bihar, ‘Ram Darbar’ depicted through TN’s Tanjore painting, ‘Sitamata Haran’ depicted through Kalamkari painting of Andhra Pradesh, and the episode of Lord Rama’s brother Lakshman cutting the nose of Surpankha which is depicted through Pattachitra painting from Odisha.
“While I depicted tales of ‘Setu Nirman’ and ‘Ramji Ki Barat’ through the popular painting folk art forms of Maharashtra and Pithora painting form of Gujarat, I also worked on not-so-popular folk forms like the Saura folk painting form that belongs to Odisha and Sohari painting form that belongs to Jharkhand,” said Sharma. The Saura painting, for instance, depicts the battle between Lord Rama and Ravana while the Sohari painting depicts ‘Meghnath Prahar on Lakshmanji’.
“Paintings have become an integral part of interior design as they create focal points, evoke emotion, and add visual depth. Our interior design student did a lot of research on Indian folk paintings for his dissertation work and now he is displaying the rich heritage of India through the tales of the Ramayana,” said Patel.





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