Jangarh Kalam
ジャンガル・カラム / 1980s– / Style / Popular Painting
A contemporary lineage growing from Jangarh Singh Shyam's practice and other Pardhan artists in central India. Large animal, plant and mythic forms carry flowing patterns of dots and short strokes. It is a particular modern artistic development, with distinct makers and new media, rather than a name for all historic Gond mural painting.
At a glance
Visual cues
- Large organic contours subdivided by repeated marks
- Dots, short lines and curves flowing along bodies and branches
- Mythic narratives connected with familiar living forms
- Movement within both coloured paintings and pen drawings
Best used for
- Showing individual authorship alongside community narratives in contemporary Indian art
- Collaborating with Pardhan artists on publications or exhibitions that connect contours and internal rhythm
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Dictionary entry
- Type
- Name the artist and work and keep repeated marks away from reading text.
- Composition
- Study a large contour and vary the direction and density of marks within its regions.
- Material
- Document each work's paper, ink, pigments or acrylic; do not reproduce a particular artist's pattern.
- Caution
- Do not generalise one visual language to all Gond people. Distinguish historic mural traditions from Jangarh Kalam, and do not make reproductions of specific works or sacred figures into a generic recipe.
- Further study
- Jangarh Singh Shyam — Nevla Saap and Birds in Union / Bhajju Shyam and Durgabai Vyam / Pardhan narratives, Bharat Bhavan and contemporary Gond painting
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