It's really ocean of paintings! I had missed Chitrasante for 12 years! I used to decide to visit Chitrasante and then missed it for some or the other reason. This year decided and visited too. It is an awesome experience.
Chitrsante is an event that is organized by
Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath , every year. Sante (ಸಂತೆ ) means market in Kannada, and Chitra (ಚಿತ್ರ) means paintings. So it really a huge market of paintings. When I visited Chitrasante, started walking form one side of the road. Everywhere I could see paintings, paintings and paintings! . And like me there were lots of painting lovers. There were thousands artists from different parts of country , lakhs of paintings and painting lovers. The whole event was spread across nearly a km . But I did not come to know when I came to the end of the road!
There were many kinds of paintings, traditional
Tanjore paintings , Kerala Mural paintings, pantings on canvas, leather, acrylic paintings, oil paintings, mixed media paintings ...uff the list is endless.
Here are the glimpses of Chitrsante,
On both sides of the road I could only see paintings:
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| Paintings stalls @ Chitrasante |
These paintings attracted me a lot. The specialty of the painting is that, its painted inside a bottle with a bent brush. Hats off to the creativity and patience of the artist
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| Paintings made inside bottles |
Kerala mural paintings:
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| Kerala mural paintings |
Some more paintings. You can see the paintings done on broken wooden pieces. Those are really something special.
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| Paintings on the wood pieces |
Abstract paintings :
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| Abstract paintings |
Sports and scenery paintings:
Artists with their paintings:
Lovely paintings :
The real Sante:
Sketching :
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| Sketching |
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| Sketching |
And an oil painting:
As I have written, this is just a glimpse. Next time if you are in Bangalore during new year, don't miss to visit Chitrasante.
I have captured images of some unique paintings at Chitrasante. Will share those in the coming posts.
Until then,
Love , laugh and live the life to the fullest,
-Ranjana
Artists with their paintings:
Lovely paintings : 
The real Sante: 
WOW Ranjana...Thank you so much for sharing such beautiful pictures of the sante...and hey I didnt realise you are from Bangalore...would love to meet you!!
ReplyDeleteCheers
Dr Sonia
Thank you Sonia.
DeleteYes, I stay in Bangalore. Definitely we will meet soon.
Thanks for sharing.. Is the festival still on?
ReplyDeleteThank you Roohi.
DeleteNo Chitrasante is an event of one day.Every year it will be on first Sunday of the new year. Don't miss next time.
oh..is great occasion...but i missed this time...but nearly 4 lak peoples visited there...
ReplyDeletethanks for sharing beautiful pictures..
Thank you Anuradha.
DeleteNot 4 lack , nearly 5 lakh people visited this year. Don't miss Chitrasante next year.
Beautiful paintings. Real treasure.
ReplyDeleteThank you Rajesh
DeleteThose art work in bottles is amazing!
ReplyDeleteI missed visiting this.
Indrani , don't miss it next year.
Deletethat is just wonderful :)
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DeleteWow! Nice display of work. Thanks to KCP for this initiative.
ReplyDeleteAMAZING!! SO MANY ART PIECES TOGETHER !ITS INDEED A VISUAL TREAT!THANKS FOR SHARING
ReplyDeleteomg! how wonderful. i wish i was able to visit this. next time. wonderful art
ReplyDeleteI always wanted to visit the santhe.. But mad crowd always puts me off. They should seriously increase the number of days of santhe. Thanks for sharing the pics.
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