Patachitra is Bengal’s traditional art of scroll painting, still largely done with natural colours. Patuas or chitrakars are a community of folk artists who are painters, lyricists and singers all rolled into one. While their paintings are called patachitra, the songs they sing that narrate the stories on the scrolls are called poter gaan. This vibrant and colourful oral-visual art form dates back to the 13th century.
Banglanatak.com, a social enterprise which works with traditional artistes has organised the chitrakars, helped them make their artwork contemporary, found them markets. . .
