Famous Patachitra painting and Ganjapa Patachitra Cards

Odisha is a state of arts and cultures. Here varieties of arts and crafts are present from ancient days. One of the famous arts in Odisha is pattachitra art. The pattachitra arts are basically beautiful paintings made on cloths by traditional artist of Odisha. More accurately the place “Raghurajpur” is very much popular and well known for the Pattachitra art. From very old days skilful artist of this village producing very fine art pieces of the famous art. The word pattachitra is a combination of two Sanskrit word “Patta” means “cloth” and chitra meance “picture”. So the meaning of pattachitra is cloth-based scroll painting. This is a traditional painting in Odisha. As the theme and style of the pattachitra painting are inspaired from the life style of Hindu god Lord Jagannath, Lord Krishna and the subject matter of the pattachitra painting is mostly mythological, religious stories and folk lore these paintings are very much important for Hindus from the religion point of view.  

The themes of the pattachitra paintings are chiefly on Lord Jagannath and Radha-Krishna, different "Vesas" of Shri Jagannath, Balabhadra and Subhadra, temple activities, the ten incarnations of Vishnu basing on the 'Gita Govinda' of Jayadev, Kama Kujara Navagunjara, Ramayana, Mahabharata, so most of the Hindu people in all over the Odisha like these paintings very much.

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As pattachitra paintings are becomes very much popular, so the artist of odisha uses the theme and style of pattachitra painting in different arts. One of the finest examples of this is Famous Ganjapa Patachitra Cards.

Ganjapa Patachitra Cards are use in a traditional card game of Odisha named as “Ganjapa”. This is a traditional card in Odisha from very old days. This traditional card game Ganjapa is played with circular shaped cards and the cards are Pattachitra painted cards. The game Ganjapa originated in the 16th century. This game Ganjapa is a recreational game for males of the Odisha, primarily villagers, kings and their court men and other peoples are very much enjoyed the game. This game Ganjapa is played as "Charirangi" means cards of 4 colors, "Atharangi" means cards of 8 colours, "Dasarangi" means cards of 10 colours, "Bararangi" means cards of 12 colours, "Chaudarangi" means cards of 14 colours and "Sohalarangi" means cards of 16 colours are played.

As kings and reach people are very much like to play this game, so they like very decorative and beautiful cards. So the art works used on Ganjapa cards are Pattachitra painting to make the cards very attractive. The artist use Pattachitra motifs and patterns with figurative representations of dancers and other people along with the Ramayana, Dasavatara of Hindu god Vishnu, and other deities of Hindu mythology are painted on the round cards that gives the card very impressive look and the players enjoy the beauty of the cards during playing. The art works always vary from region to region and community to community. Ganjapa card art work from Ganjam varies from that of Puri. In different regions of odisha many artist added their own style and unique touch of their creativity to make the cards unique.

Patachitra art of Odisha

Patachitra is a traditional art form, here in this type of art cloth-based   scroll painting are produced by skilled workers of Odisha. This term patachitra comes from the Sanskrit language, in which the "Patta" literally means "cloth" and "Chitra" means "picture". Most of these paintings depict stories of Hindu God lord Krishna. Different stories of Lord Krishna are shown in the form of paintings. Not only the paintings of lord Krishna artist make many other paintings of other Hindu  lords like lord Jagannath, lord Vaishnav, lord Saiva  and many others.

As Indian peoples are very much religious and very much believes in Gods. So this thing can also reflect in their art forms. Many artist of India love to put Lord’s in their painting or arts. This patachitra art also comes under this category. Lord Jagannath, Lord Vaishnav and Lord Siva are those Hindu gods those people like very much so patachitra arts are like to made their paintings in so that they can sail these paintings in a good price.

Patachitra Art On Saree

The painting the 'patachitra' resemble the old murals of Odisha especially religious centers of Odisha, like Puri the place of lord jagannat, Konark and Bhubaneswar which was surrounded by temples. This region, dating back to the 5th century BC when this paintings are very much appreciated by all peoples not only in Odisha also British people like this art and transports these patachitra painjting from India to other counties . The best work of patachitra is found in and around Puri, especially in the Raghurajpur village. Here many skilled artists are present who maintaining their culture of patachitra making.

This old tradition of Odia painting still survives in the places like Puri, Raghurajpur, Paralakhemundi, Chikiti and Sonepur . There are some peoples or artists who are spending their whole life for this art. Even today in Odisha, these two crafts are combined in one and these artists and known as Chitrakaras, their title remains mostly Mohapatra or Maharana.

Now in these days in all over the world people like this patachitra art and through online shopping people purchasing this. So the future of this art and these artists are looking to be good.  

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Indian handicrafts are always a famous item everywhere in the world. Patachitra saree of Raghurajpur, Odisha is a world famous handicraft of India. Painters always uses natural colours for Patachitra and it's look gorgeous. Ladies can wear it in any special purpose like, marriage, pujas, and other social occasions. Now anyone can buy patachitra saree through online shopping store.

Handcrafted Patachitra Kurti Online Shopping

Patachitra art is a famous Indian handicraft. Peoples of India always love to use Patachitra painted garments and other things like wall hangings, wall paintings etc. Patachitra art on the garments like sarees, dupattas, kurtas, kurtis are always in demand. Now anyone can buy from anywhere patachitra painted sarees, kurtis, dupattas from online shopping store. 

Patachitra kurtis are very famous among the young ladies, housewives etc. Because, it is easy to wear and anytime at any purpose you can wear it.