Paintings and Art Exhibition - Chitra Santhe Mysore 2015

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Chitra Santhe in Mysore organized by VishwaManava Vidyarthi Yuva Vedike – Karnataka was held on 18 Oct 2015, Sunday.

This art exhibition conducted yearly is an attempt to elevate general awareness about art in people. It is a way to encourage artists who dedicate their entire time and life to art.

Chitra Santhe aims at exhibiting and selling paintings and other art work at affordable rates. This exhibition if a platform to popularize the paintings and artists. Talent gets recognized and upcoming artists are encouraged.

Visitors get a very unique experience at this exhibition. Chitra Santhe literally means Market of Pictures/Paintings

One gets to see various form of art here. Warli art painting, oil painting, acrylic painting, kinnala painted wooden art, modern art, traditional painting, realistic photo painting, still life paintings, portraits, wildlife painting, inlay wooden art, and lot more.

This time, the exhibition has been organized during Navratri/Dasara in Mysore to attract more visitors.

Here are few glimpses of the recently held Chitra Santhe. Admire and enjoy.

Below are few paintings (oil medium) depicting the typical village life in India. Marvellous ! You will agree.

Great respect and appreciation to this artist who seems to have sat in the temple premises to paint them. Beautiful oil paintings of temple in Karnataka.

Somebody asked for the price, and he replied 'Rs. 25,000' .

Warli art painting is usually done by tribal groups of people in India to simply express joy, happiness, wedding, celebrations and many other happenings of life.

Warli Tribal Art

This was another artist whose every single work was excellent. People always surrounded his work.

Kinnala Art is basically painted wooden art mainly from northern parts of Karnataka. The art originated during the Vijayanagara Empire. The artisans moved after the devastating war of 1565 AD. They settled in nearby villages and their art flourished in the villages. The village was named after the art of Kinhal.

kinnala wooden art, kinnala wooden art table

Hampi Stone Chariot oil painting

Belur Temple Darpana Sundari oil painting

Hampi Historical Structure oil painting

Varanasi - Oil painting

oil painting indian ancient oil painting

vintage cars and bike on canvas.

Coffee painting, painting art made by mixing coffee in different amount of mixture.

a monochromatic painting made by using coffee powder.

paintings on dried leaves

decorative pot paintings and handicrafts

baby krishna painting

There was this young artist named Mr.Gangadhar who considered painting and art as meditation. And that was proved in his work. His paintings (mostly oil) was close to the realisitic photographs.

No Photography, was what the staff at this section said to all the visitors with camera. Yet, I somehow managed to capture a couple of his paintings from far away.