Chrome Yellow Wall Art

Chrome Yellow — 25 museum-grade prints in this palette. Kalighat Pat grew up in 19th-century Kolkata, painted by patua (chitrakar) scroll-painters who settled near the Kalighat Kali temple and sold quick watercolours to pilgrims. Alongside gods and goddesses they produced what is often called India's first modern social satire — sharp, affectionate caricatures of everyday Calcutta life and its small domestic battles. Cheriyal scrolls come from Cheriyal village in Telangana's Siddipet district, painted for generations by the Nakashi artist community. They were long narrative cloth scrolls unrolled episode by episode by travelling balladeer-storytellers — the kaki padagollu and allied story-telling castes — who sang the epics and caste-origin legends to village audiences through the night. Ganesh Chaturthi — Vinayaka Chavithi — climaxes after ten days in nimajjanam, the immersion of the clay idol in a tank, lake or river, a tradition revived as a public festival in the late nineteenth century. In Hyderabad the giant Khairatabad Ganesha is paraded by lorry to Hussain Sagar with drummers and dancers, and a crane lowers the idol into the water.

Updated 22 Jun 2026