Musical Wall Art

Musical — 4 museum-grade prints that set the mood. Gond painting comes from the Gond Adivasi communities of central India, with its best-known school formed by the Pradhan Gond of Patangarh and the wider Dindori region of Madhya Pradesh. The contemporary form is largely the legacy of Jangarh Singh Shyam (1962–2001), whose distinctive line-and-in-fill manner — every form bounded by a bold outline, then filled with rows of dots, dashes, commas and scales — became known as Jangarh Kalam and was carried on by his family and students. Ragamala ("garland of ragas") painting visualises Indian musical modes as scenes, often pairing a raga with a season, time of day and emotional state. Megh Malhar is the great monsoon raga, sung to call the rains, and is traditionally pictured with gathering clouds, dancing figures, and the peacocks and cranes the rain awakens. Ragamala — 'garland of melodies' — is the genre that paints each musical mode as a mood and a scene; Todi Ragini is the heroine whose veena charms deer to her in a forest or garden, a favourite subject across Rajput and Pahari painting. The Kishangarh school, flourishing in mid-18th-century Rajasthan under Raja Sawant Singh and his painter Nihal Chand, is celebrated for its idealized feminine profile of the arched eye and fish-curved brow.

Updated 22 Jun 2026