Playful Calm Wall Art

Playful Calm — 2 museum-grade prints that set the mood. Ragamala ('garland of ragas') painting personifies the musical modes as figures and scenes; Hindola ('swing') is a monsoon raga conventionally shown as lovers — often Krishna and Radha — on a flower-hung swing, linked to the Teej swing-festival of the rains. This treatment follows the Kangra school of the Himachal foothills, which flourished under Raja Sansar Chand in the late 18th and early 19th centuries and is prized within the Rajput miniature umbrella for lyrical naturalism and soft green landscape. Kangra, the most lyrical of the Pahari (hill) Rajput schools, flourished in the Himalayan foothills in the late 18th century and prized soft naturalism — gentle green hills, tender skies, plantain and rain. In the Baramasa ("twelve months") cycle, Sawan is the monsoon month, traditionally painted with a lady watching the rains for her absent love, plantain leaves bending and peacocks calling.

Updated 22 Jun 2026