Indigo Wall Art

Indigo — 7 museum-grade prints in this palette. Gond painting comes from the Gond Adivasi communities of central India, with its best-known school formed by the Pradhan Gond of Patangarh and the wider Dindori region of Madhya Pradesh. The contemporary form is largely the legacy of Jangarh Singh Shyam (1962–2001), whose line-and-in-fill manner — every form bounded by a bold outline, then filled with rows of dots, dashes, commas and scales — became known as Jangarh Kalam and was carried on by his family and students. Madhubani — Mithila painting — developed in the Mithila region of Bihar, historically painted by women on interior and exterior walls during weddings, festivals, and auspicious rites. The Bharni (filling) style, associated with Brahmin women artists, uses strong black outlines filled with bright natural pigments — ochre, turmeric, vermillion, indigo — and traditionally depicts deities, peacocks, fish, and lotus as auspicious symbols. Hindola Utsav, the swing festival, falls in the green month of Shravan, when the deity is placed on a decorated swing and gently rocked — a beloved monsoon celebration in the Pushtimarg and the Vrindavan calendar. A pichhwai (literally 'that which hangs at the back') is the painted cloth hung behind the Shrinathji deity to set the season's mood; this fusion borrows that grammar for the swing festival.

Updated 22 Jun 2026