The Santhal tribe, one of the famous tribes belonging to the Bihar state of India, has a typical style of painting, known as Santhal paintings. Painted freehand, these two dimensional paintings reflect their perception of life. The third dimension, the depth is always lacking in these paintings reflecting the simplicity of the artist. Sometimes these paintings also tell how simple and colourful their imagination can be. They put colours to the blandest creations of the nature at times. They can be treated as the expression of their desire to colour the nature as well, if we think philosophically. The bodies of the various forms that they paint are seldom or perhaps never in one shade, they are always striped, dotted or filled with any other geometrical pattern. They are done… Click here to read more