In a quiet and remote region near the foothills of the Himalayas for centuries, maybe even millennia, a tradition of mural painting has survived and been passed down from mother to daughter generation after generation.
If you want to understand Mithila art, you must start with fertility. It was upper caste women who developed the art form centuries ago as decorations for the walls of the wedding chamber where the bride and groom, two strangers at this point thanks to an arranged marriage, would spend their first night together.
In a quiet and remote region near the foothills of the Himalayas for centuries, maybe even millennia, a tradition of mural painting has survived and been passed down from mother to daughter generation after generation.
If you want to understand Mithila art, you must start with fertility. It was upper caste women who developed the art form centuries ago as decorations for the walls of the wedding chamber where the bride and groom, two strangers at this point thanks to an arranged marriage, would spend their first night together.
Mithila is an intensely patriarchal society but art has served as a means to emancipation for the local women artists.
Nothing lends an air of well-travelled sophistication to your living room like a piece of art from an exotic locale.
