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Indian Traditional Art Paintings - Tribal Painting: "Wedding Celebrations in Santhal Tribe” by Sumon Chitrakar - Original Handmade Indian Paintings for Sale in Mojarto - NDTV Art Website - 14"W x 22"H
Sumon Chitrakar is a young Indian artist who carries lineage of traditional Bengal patachitra artists involved in painting patachitra scrolls and compose verses that accompanies those scrolls. Sumon has been trying new themes into the traditional patachitra folk art form creating a distinctive style of his own. Like most other Chitrakars (Indian artists) in his community, Sumon too would rely on his imagination influenced by social and cultural surroundings and events of our times to create and transform new stories into wonderful patachitra scroll paintings and accompanying songs to express stories associated with those scrolls. His artworks have tribal motifs too reflecting life and culture of Santhal tribe.