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PaintingGI Tagged · 2018
Bengal Patachitra
TownPingla
StateWest Bengal
Craft typePainting
GI tag2018
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A scroll-painting tradition practised by the Patua community, who traditionally sang the story depicted on the scroll aloud while slowly unrolling it panel by panel for their audience.
Did you know? Bengal Patachitra artists, called Patuas, are also singers — each scroll comes with its own accompanying song that narrates the painted story, meaning the art form was never meant to be viewed in silence.