Kinetic Wall Art

Kinetic — 13 museum-grade prints that set the mood. Kalighat Pat grew up in 19th-century Kolkata, painted by migrant patua (chitrakar) scroll-painters who settled near the Kalighat Kali temple and sold quick watercolour souvenirs to pilgrims. Working on mill-made paper with a bold single black brush outline and soft 'boneless' shaded strokes on a plain ground, they painted gods and goddesses alongside what is often called India's first modern social satire — sharp, affectionate caricatures of the colonial 'babu' and the hypocrisies of Calcutta life. Pattachitra is the cloth-scroll painting tradition of Odisha, tied to the Jagannath temple at Puri and the chitrakar families of Raghurajpur, worked in five mineral colours on patta — cotton stiffened with tamarind-seed paste and chalk: conch-white (sankha), lamp-black (kalia), haritala yellow, hingula red and geru brick-orange. The episode comes from the Ramayana war: when Lakshmana falls, Hanuman flies to the Himalaya for the Sanjivani herb and, unable to identify it, lifts the entire mountain — one of the most beloved scenes of Hanuman's devotion and strength. The circuit returned to the Formula 1 calendar as the Red Bull Ring in 2014 after years as the A1-Ring, carrying the same Styrian mountain setting that made the original Österreichring famous for speed and scenery. Austrian Grand Prix weekends often pair F1 with regional touring-car and motorcycle events, so the track functions as a year-round pilgrimage site for Central European motorsport fans rather than a single-race postcard.

Updated 22 Jun 2026