Although he is known by many other attributes, Ganesha's elephant head makes him easy to identify between ten incarnations of lord Vishnu in this unique painting. Unique art made up on delicate Talapatra paintings are made by fine line drawings etched with a steel stylus on rectangular strips of palm leaves that are delicately strung together. . Radheykrishna playing flute together in the fields of Vrindavan with ten incarnations of lord Vishnu is depicted beautifully in this painting by engraving & cutting on palm leaf by Orissa craftsman. This beautiful painting is compiled with other 5 incarnations of lord Vishnu painted infront & behind the flip are:-Matsya, Kurma, Narasimha, Parashurama, Kalki NOTE :- This particular painting contains foldable pictures which also contains some erotic figures. The erotic figures are mostly commonly used paintings in Orissa. Kindly, keep this in mind before the purchase of this product. Palmleaves Orissa's villages are the centres of the famous Pattachitra paintings, and in one such village, Raghurajpur, in Puri district of Orissa, creativity flows on any available surface, from cloth and paper to walls, terracotta and dried palm leaves. In the zigzag folds of crisp yellow-green leaves, delicately strung together with thread, are needle-sharp fine drawings carefully etched and cut out, telling stories from great mythological epics. Known as Talapatrachitras, (tala - palm, patra - leaf, chitra - illustration) these palm leaf paintings hold a world of tales and secrets, beautifully depicted by the artists of Orissa. The great epics Ramayana and Mahabharata are favourite subjects of illustration in many art forms, as they are with palm leaf paintings. Stories of gods and goddesses are also depicted with minute details of ornaments, hairstyles, animals, flowers, trees and elements of nature.
