The Phad painting is a popular style of folk painting. The painting under this style is done on a piece of cloth. This is one of the painting styles practiced in northern India since the ancient time. Thematically these paintings are the depiction of deities and their stories, including the legends of rulers of Rajasthan.
Phad is a type of scroll painting. Artists paint these paintings on a long cloth, the piece of cloth being of generally two types in lengths, either of fifteen feet of thirty feet long. They used bright and subtle colors, mainly extracted from the vegetables and the materials locally available. The style of executing the phad painting is also unique. First they draw outlines of the paintings drawn in several blocks. Then these blocks are filled with different colors.
It is interesting to note that the traditional art of phad painting is one type of folk paintings, particularly practiced by the artists who hardly get any sponsorship for their works. But it has remained attached with and popular among the mass of people. It is because the subject matters of these paintings revolve around either the heroic acts or mythological stories.
There are sects or castes among the people particularly in Rajasthan whose family profession is to entertain the people by singing folk songs of heroes in public programs. These folk singers use the artworks done by the phad painters. The paintings depicting Gods and Goddesses are used by these singers and worshippers as mobile temples. Keeping one painting before a crowd of people, they start singing and narrating the incidences painted on the scroll.
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