An artistic workshop was organised at Jawahar Bal Bhavan here on Monday. The studeents learned about Meenakari Tanjore Art on mirror under this workshop.
The workshop was conducted by expert Dharmendra Mewar. The painting division's in-charge and senior painter Shah Bano told that the children learned this artistry with great enthusiasm and understood its nuances. About 25 children attended the workshop.
Shahbano informed that in the last one year the workshop organised in the painting division and the exhibition of artworks and paintings prepared by children in the summer session were held in the organizing room.
Thanjavur painting is a classical South Indian painting style, which was inaugurated from the town of Thanjavur anglicized as Tanjore and spread across the adjoining and geographically contiguous Tamil country.
The art form draws its immediate resources and inspiration from way back about 1600 AD, a period when the Nayakas of Thanjavur under the suzerainty of the Vijayanagara Rayas encouraged art—chiefly, classical dance and music—as well as literature, both in Telugu and Tamil and painting of chiefly Hindu religious subjects in temples. It is distinguished by its famous gold coating. However, it can safely be surmised that Thanjavur painting, as we know it now, originated in the Maratha court of Thanjavur (1676 - 1855).
Director, Jawahar Bal Bhavan Umashankar Nagayach appreciated the pictures made by the children while observing this exhibition and guiding the children, said that the children should use their natural talent as well as in other areas as well as in the arts sector. Parents who come to Bal Bhavan also observed this exhibition.