This three-week unit, developed by our partners at UC Berkeley ORIAS, invites students to understand and make connections with cultures in rural North India via traditions of ritual painting.
Students identify the characteristics of Mithila paintings and create their own Mithila-style paintings.
Geared for the visually impaired: Hear a visual description of Daughters Are for Others (2006), by Shalinee Kumari (Indian, b. 1985). Ink and colors on paper. Experience this artwork in the exhibition, Painting Is My Everything: Art from India's Mithila Region, (on view at the Asian Art Museum Sept. 7 to Dec. 30, 2018).
Geared for the visually impaired: Hear a visual description of Monuments in Washington, DC (1977), by Sita Devi (Indian, 1914–2005). Ink and colors on paper. Experience this artwork in the exhibition, Painting Is My Everything: Art from India's Mithila Region (on view from Sept. 7 to Dec. 30, 2018).
Geared for the visually impaired: Hear a visual description of The Hindu deity Kali (1988), by Baua Devi (Indian, b. 1944). Ink and colors on paper. Experience this artwork in the exhibition, Painting Is My Everything: Art from India's Mithila Region (on view from Sept. 7 to Dec. 30, 2018).
Rama, hero of the Ramayana, approx. 1930, by Abah Wikarta. Indonesia; Kuningan or Tegal, Central Java. Wood, cloth, and mixed media. From the Mimi and John Herbert Collection, F2000.86.89.
Sita (Sinta), wife of Rama, approx. 1980. Indonesia; West Java. Wood, cloth, and mixed media. From the Mimi and John Herbert Collection, F2000.86.148.
The Man-lion Narasimha, by Lalita Devi (Indian), approx. 1980. India | Mithila | Bihar. Ink and colors on paper. Museum purchase, 1999.39.10.
The ten incarnations of the Hindu deity Vishnu, by Batohi Jha (Indian), 1975–1982. India | Mithila | Bihar. Ink and colors on paper. Museum purchase, 1999.39.45.
