Village Paintings encompass within themselves not just colors and subjects, but also an overwhelming sense of nostalgia, nostalgia for a way of life, which is (or in most cases has already) fast disappearing. Colorful images of costumed men and women planting, hoeing, harvesting, watering their crops or perhaps heading to the market, projects a somewhat idyllic illusion of a village life, and yet they manage to make us yearn for something which is/was probably never there.
Village Painting is not a very easy genre to pin down. After all it's a subject which almost every culture and civilization has dealt with –whether its the ode on a Grecian urn that Keats so poignantly talks about in his poetry or the rustic Warli paintings of Maharastrian tribal societies, Village paintings have had varied and far flung practitioners.
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