Garbhachakra (Struggle of Womb)

Art by Nupur Nishith

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 36 x 24 in

Year: 2017

 

 

This painting depicts the struggle during the birth. Here it’s represented with the struggle of a caterpillar to transform and the birth to a butterfly.  The struggle to move from the darkness of the womb or cocoon and fly in the bright and colorful world outside. The shift is also form the protection of the womb to the naked exposure to various attacks and situations in the life outside.

Hand painted in the motifs of Mithila or as popularly known Madhubani paintings, an ancient folk art from India.

Mithila Artform is famous for the details in the paintings in a flat two-dimensional perspective with no shading or overlapping. Taking it to the next level Artist draws inspiration from experience and surroundings. Objects and situations have been visualized in two-dimensional perspective to create the motifs and designs which makes her art unique and distinct. Symbolic motifs and designs to be incorporated in the paintings. Mithila paintings use natural and bright colors with symbolic distinct features which she likes to experiment. She likes to work mostly freehand without using any stencils or pattern tools on my various projects.

So, every piece has a story to tell based on the research and its process of development.

The design is original to the artist so please refrain from any sort of plagiarism.