Lyrical Calm Wall Art

Lyrical Calm — 4 museum-grade prints that set the mood. 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 Pradhan are the bardic, musician clan within Gond society — keepers of genealogy and song, traditionally playing the bana, a spike fiddle whose headstock is often carved as a bird. Pattachitra is the cloth-scroll painting tradition of Odisha, tied to the Jagannath temple at Puri and the chitrakar families of Raghurajpur, worked in five mineral colours on patta — cotton stiffened with tamarind-seed paste and chalk: conch-white (sankha), lamp-black (kalia), haritala yellow, hingula red and geru brick-orange. The Gita Govinda, the 12th-century Sanskrit love-poem of Radha and Krishna by the Odia poet Jayadeva, is sung daily at the Jagannath temple and is one of the deepest sources for Pattachitra's Krishna-leela imagery. Pattachitra is the cloth-painting tradition of Odisha, tied to the Jagannath temple at Puri and the chitrakar families of Raghurajpur, painted on patta (cotton treated with tamarind-seed paste and chalk) in five mineral colours — conch-white, lamp-black, haritala yellow, hingula red and geru brick-orange. Venugopala — Krishna as the cowherd piping his flute (venu) to the cattle, often beneath a kadamba tree — is among the most lyrical Krishna-leela subjects, embodying the music that draws all beings to the divine.

Updated 22 Jun 2026