Pithora: A view on traditional art & culture of gujarat

Author: 
Shanti Kumari Thakur

Pithora craftsmanship is a type of society painting of tribes, living in eastern Gujarat. It is profoundly ceremonial painting done by tribal individuals so as to summon their God-Baba Pithora. The point of this paper is to inspect the progressions rotating around Pithora artistic expression. This study utilizes content investigation and depends on optional sources, for example, books, diary articles, tribal writing and monographs. The primary destinations of this study are to depict the formal centrality of this tribal artistic expression; to talk about the progressions that Pithora workmanship has experienced; to find the present status of this fine art in the setting of tribal advancement and to talk about the contributory elements in charge of progress. The effect of changing society is obvious in the topics of Pithora artistic creations. However need of great importance is to safeguard their craft and utilize it for the improvement of the tribes.

Paper No: 
588