Bharti Dayal (born December, 1961 in

Samastipur Samastipur is a city and a municipal corporation (nagar nigam) in Bihar, India. It is the headquarter of Samastipur district and comes under Darbhanga division. The Budhi Gandak river flows through the town. It is one of the five railway divisi ...

) is an Indian artist specialized in

Madhubani art Mithila painting is a style of painting practiced in the Mithila region of India and Nepal. Artists create these paintings using a variety of mediums, including their own fingers, or twigs, brushes, nib-pens, and matchstick. The paint is crea ...

Biography

Dayal was born in the

Darbhanga Darbhanga is the fifth-largest city and municipal corporation in the Indian state of Bihar situated centrally in Mithila region. Darbhanga is the headquarters of the Darbhanga district and the Darbhanga division. It was the seat of the erstw ...

district of

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, the

Mithila Mithila may refer to: Places * Mithilā, a synonym for the ancient Videha state ** Mithilā (ancient city), the ancient capital city of Videha * Mithila (region), a cultural region (historical and contemporary), now divided between India and Nepal ...

region famous for Madhubani painting. She obtained a bachelor’s degree in Science and right after completed her master in Science (MSc).

Work

From a young age, Dayal have been learning Madhubani painting from her mother and grandmother. She pursued the art form professionally from 1984, subsequent to completing her formal education in science. She has striven to bring innovation in the traditional art practiced in Mithila, and train other women artists from the region at her studio in

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. Her style is known for bringing a contemporary cast to traditional Madhubani art using modern media such as acrylic and canvas. She paints with natural, vegetable-based colors. Her renditions of

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and

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depict undercurrents of "love, longing, and peace".

Exhibitions

Dayal has held numerous exhibitions of her work nationally and internationally. Her Madhubani art was the subject of a documentary shown on French television in 1995. A show of her works in acrylic on canvas painted between June 2015 and June 2016 was organized by the Museum of Sacred Art (MOSA). Dayal's seven Madhubani paintings, which are a combination of traditional art with contemporary modern subjects, are included in the book ''The New Bihar''. Her illustration for the book's cover includes a girl riding a bicycle, symbolizing the "empowerment of women and the quest for education", and a fish, which denotes the theme of "rainbow agriculture", or the blending of agricultural pursuits to enhance rural income. Book authors N.K. Singh and Nicholas Stern have observed: "Bharti's use of the traditional style on contemporary themes can contribute to the revival of Madhubani art".

Awards

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* Millennium award * National Merit awards * 2006: India's National Award for excellence in handicrafts

Publications

* ;Cover art * * *Cover Art for 'Language Politics and Public sphere in North India .,Making of the Maithili Movement by Mithilesh kumar jha .publisher:Oxford university press ;

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dayal, Bharti 1961 births Living people Painters from Bihar Indian women painters Women artists from Bihar People from Samastipur district 20th-century Indian women artists 21st-century Indian women artists 21st-century Indian artists