Krishna Art Prints Wall Art

Krishna Art Prints — 66 museum-grade prints on the theme. Kalighat Pat grew up in 19th-century Kolkata, painted by migrant patua (chitrakar) scroll-painters who settled near the Kalighat Kali temple and sold quick watercolour souvenirs to pilgrims. Working on mill-made paper with a bold single black brush outline and soft 'boneless' shaded strokes on a plain ground, they painted gods and goddesses alongside what is often called India's first modern social satire — sharp, affectionate caricatures of the colonial 'babu' and the hypocrisies of Calcutta life. Aipan is the ritual floor- and wall-art of the Kumaon region of Uttarakhand, drawn traditionally by Kumaoni women with white rice-paste (biswar) on a geru (red-ochre) earth ground. Janmashtami marks the midnight birth of Krishna; households set up and rock a small cradle (jhula), and the flute (bansuri) and peacock feather are his constant attributes, with conch shells sounded at worship. The Dashavatara — the ten principal incarnations of Vishnu, taken to restore dharma across the ages — runs in the classical sequence from Matsya to Kalki, with Buddha widely counted among the ten in the Indian tradition. It is a long-standing subject of temple narrative painting, and here it is rendered in bhitti chitra, Kerala's temple-mural tradition that flourished roughly from the 16th to 19th century and is still painted today: flat panchavarna pigments (red, yellow, green, black, white over an ochre ground), a bold lamp-black outline and the school's elongated lotus-shaped eyes.

Updated 22 Jun 2026