Bold Symmetrical Wall Art

Bold Symmetrical — 2 museum-grade prints that set the mood. Thrissur Pooram, held at the Vadakkunnathan temple in Thrissur, is one of Kerala's grandest temple festivals — rows of caparisoned elephants, the percussion ensemble, and the kudamattam exchange of brightly coloured silk parasols. The caparison includes the nettipattam, the golden forehead-net, while riders bear the aalavattam round fan, the venchamaram white whisk and the muthukuda decorated parasols, all to the beat of the chenda drums. Garuda is the great eagle, the vahana of Vishnu, the swift mount on which the preserver crosses the worlds; the image of Vishnu standing or seated upon Garuda — Garudarudha — is a classic devotional subject, and Garuda himself is venerated, his pillar (garuda stambha) standing before many Vishnu temples. The picture is built in the idiom of bhitti chitra, Kerala's temple-mural tradition, which uses the panchavarna five-colour system — red, yellow, green, black and white over an ochre ground — in flat opaque fields bounded by a bold lamp-black outline, with the school's signature elongated lotus-shaped eyes; the green body follows the murals' guna grammar for the serene divine.

Updated 22 Jun 2026