Bhil Art

Lado Bai, the well known Bhil artist refused to be restrained in the conventional practices of art. Her panel painted with her daughter, Anita, exhibits a medley of colours – figures in brown and dull red are positioned next to those in pastel shades such as pink and blue, not to speak of orange, yellow and green, that are used indiscriminately on the foliage.

The colours seem to reflect the whimsical images that dominate her paintings in which Pithora horses - iconic motifs in Bhil ritual art - jostle with gingerbread-like dolls and astrological figurations. It is as if we, the viewers, are entering a fairytale world.