MITHILA PAINTERS: FIVE VILLAGE
ARTISTS FROM MADHUBANI, INDIA (40
minutes, 1994)
Available in VHS and DVD
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...focuses
on five village painters: four women (including two Brahmans, a Kayastha,
and a low-caste Dusadh) and one man (the son of a tantric priest), living
in the Mithila-speaking region of northern Bihar and eastern Nepal.
All five follow the main conventions of Mithila painting. Yet each one
has favorite themes and stories (such as the story of the young wife
whose adopted father was a cobra, or the story of a boy's murder in
the village), and each one paints them in unique, individual styles
and colors. Accounts of their lives, highlighted by samples of their
paintings, illustrate how selling their paintings has affected the lives
of villagers --especially women-- in Mithila.
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