Exploring Shakti, the ‘power of women’, in Mithila Painting
The Mithila region on the Nepal-India border in northern Bihar is best-known for its art tradition once solely the work of rural women who decorated their mud walls with images of their Hindu gods and goddesses to bring auspiciousness to their homes. Starting in the late 1960s, the Indian government began encouraging women to paint …
Exploring Shakti, the ‘power of women’, in Mithila Painting Read More »
