The training workshop of Bhil Painting of Madhya Pradesh commenced at Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya under its popular summer series of ‘Do & Learn’,—an educational programme. It will continue till May 9. In this workshop, traditional Bhil artists, Gangu Bai and his assistants are imparting training for this figurative and narrative visual art.
On this occasion, Dilip Singh, Joint Director, IGRMS, Participant and senior official of IGRMS formally inaugurated Museum’s training workshop for Bhil Painting of Madhya Pradesh.
Traditional artist Gangu Bai said that members of Bhil community on auspicious occasions decorate their houses by painting walls and murals of cow, bull, snake, mango tree, lion and traditional weapons for hunting, which are called Gothrej to make occasion more joyful.
They think that their gods and goddesses, spirits of their ancestors and animals-birds, cows, bulls, peacocks etc continue to oblige them through diverse forms. Pithora is painted on the inner wall of the house. A Pithora—maker is known as Lakhindra.
It becomes pure and becomes Pithora in a day. It was said by Suraj Bariya, Asst Artist. On this occasion, Pritam Choudhary (Programme Coordinator) said that In this workshop, more than 17 participants is creating trees, leaves, animals and human figures on our canvas. The registration of this workshop will continue on till May 3, 2019.
On Thursday, Rajesh Kumar Singh (Director, Central Secretariat Library, ministry of culture, Govt of India) visited Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya. On this occasion, they visited the Indoor exhibition Building, Veethi Sankul and addressed a meeting in the library of the museum. They were guided through the visit by Dilip Singh (Joint Director, IGRMS) and senior Anthropologist of IGRMS.