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Aipan art drawn on the entrance of a house. Aipan (Kumaoni: Ēpaṇ) is an established-ritualistic folk art originating from Kumaon in the Indian Himalayas. The art is done mainly during special occasions, household ceremonies and rituals. Practitioners believe that it invokes a divine power which brings about good fortune and deters evil. [1]
The Lakhudiyar Caves are located in the Barechhina village at the banks of the Suyal River in the Almora district of Uttarakhand. On the walls of the caves are paintings depicting animals, humans and also tectiforms, created with fingers in black, red and white. There are also a few animal motifs, one of them closely resembling a fox.
[1] [2] The museum exhibits various aspects of the calamity and the folk culture of Uttarakhand through paintings, sculptures, and other artworks by artist Surendra Pal Joshi. [3] [4] [2] [5] It also includes an art gallery encouraging younger generation of artists to exhibit modern and contemporary art.
Uttarakhand music (1 C, 1 P) ... Aipan art; L. Likhai This page was last edited on 20 November 2017, at 02:06 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
He continued to work for the development of art and literature during the period of the Gorkha rule (1803–15) and the British rule over Garhwal. [ 6 ] Mola Ram himself initially painted in the Mughal style until visiting Kangra , [ 8 ] e.g. his painting Mastani is in the Mughal idiom, [ 9 ] while his later paintings, e.g. Vasakasajja Nayika ...
The state song of Uttarakhand is a hymn, praising Uttarakhand as a divine motherland. Written by Hemant Bisht and composed by noted Uttarakhandi folk singer and musician Narendra Singh Negi , this song is trilingual with first three of its seven verses written in Hindi , while the last four verses are written in Garhwali and Kumaoni languages.
Bagnath Temple is located at 29.8370° N, 79.7725° E. [8] The temple is situated in Bageshwar City [9] in Bageshwar District [10] in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It is situated at the confluence of Saryu and Gomati rivers. It has an elevation of 1004 m above mean sea level. [11]
Radha-Krishna theme, from the Gita Govinda in Pahari style, Garhwal sub-school. Pahari painting (lit. ' a painting from the mountainous regions, pahar meaning a mountain in Hindi ') is an umbrella term used for a form of Indian painting, done mostly in miniature forms, originating from the lower Himalayan hill kingdoms of North India, during the early 17th to mid 19th century, notably Basohli ...