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Sunday, January 3, 2016

Chitrasante 2016 at Chitrakala Parishat- Ocean of paintings

It's really ocean of paintings! I had missed Chitrasante for 12 years! I used to decide to visit Chitrasante and then missed it for some or the other reason. This year decided and visited too. It is an awesome experience.
Chitrsante is an event that is organized by Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath , every year. Sante (ಸಂತೆ ) means market in Kannada, and Chitra (ಚಿತ್ರ) means paintings. So it really a huge market of paintings. When I visited Chitrasante, started walking  form one side of the road. Everywhere I could see paintings, paintings and paintings! . And like me there were lots of painting lovers. There were thousands artists from different parts of country , lakhs of paintings and painting lovers. The whole event was spread across nearly a km . But I did not come to know when I came to the end of the road!
There were many kinds of paintings, traditional Tanjore paintings  , Kerala Mural paintings, pantings on canvas, leather, acrylic paintings, oil paintings, mixed media paintings ...uff the list is endless. 
Here are the glimpses of Chitrsante,
On both sides of the road I could only see paintings:
paintings
Paintings stalls @ Chitrasante
 These paintings attracted me a lot. The specialty of the painting is that, its painted inside a bottle with a bent brush. Hats off to the creativity and  patience of the artist
paintings
Paintings made inside bottles
 Kerala mural paintings:
Kerala mural
Kerala mural paintings
 Some more paintings. You can see the paintings done on broken wooden pieces. Those are really something special.
paintings
Paintings on the wood pieces

Abstract paintings :
abstract paintings
Abstract paintings
 Sports and scenery paintings:
 Artists with their paintings:
 Lovely paintings :
 The real Sante:
Sketching : 
Sketching

Sketching
 And an oil painting:
 As I have written, this is just a glimpse. Next time if you are in Bangalore during new year, don't miss to visit Chitrasante.
I have captured images of some unique paintings at Chitrasante. Will share those in the coming posts.
Until then,
Love , laugh and live the life to the fullest,
-Ranjana

16 comments:

  1. WOW Ranjana...Thank you so much for sharing such beautiful pictures of the sante...and hey I didnt realise you are from Bangalore...would love to meet you!!

    Cheers
    Dr Sonia

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    1. Thank you Sonia.
      Yes, I stay in Bangalore. Definitely we will meet soon.

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  2. Thanks for sharing.. Is the festival still on?

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    1. Thank you Roohi.
      No Chitrasante is an event of one day.Every year it will be on first Sunday of the new year. Don't miss next time.

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  3. oh..is great occasion...but i missed this time...but nearly 4 lak peoples visited there...

    thanks for sharing beautiful pictures..

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    1. Thank you Anuradha.
      Not 4 lack , nearly 5 lakh people visited this year. Don't miss Chitrasante next year.

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  4. Beautiful paintings. Real treasure.

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  5. Those art work in bottles is amazing!
    I missed visiting this.

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  6. that is just wonderful :)

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  7. Wow! Nice display of work. Thanks to KCP for this initiative.

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  8. AMAZING!! SO MANY ART PIECES TOGETHER !ITS INDEED A VISUAL TREAT!THANKS FOR SHARING

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  9. omg! how wonderful. i wish i was able to visit this. next time. wonderful art

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  10. I always wanted to visit the santhe.. But mad crowd always puts me off. They should seriously increase the number of days of santhe. Thanks for sharing the pics.

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