ARTIST
Avinash Karn
TITLE
Dangal Girls
SIZE
22 x 30 inches
MEDIUM
Acrylic on canson paper
YEAR
2019
In the heartland of Bihar, amidst the rustic charm of Ranti village, a new wave of artistic expression is emerging—one that seamlessly blends the rich heritage of Madhubani folk art with contemporary sensibilities. At the forefront of this movement stands Avinash Karn, a visionary artist born into a lineage of Madhubani painters, whose innovative approach…
Avinash Karn was born in a family of Madhubani painters in Ranti, a village in Bihar and he is the founder of Mandhubani’s first art collective ‘Kacchi- Bharni’ (meaning line-filling) which aims at revolutionizing and transcending the folk art into contemporary ethos, responding to our time.
He has kept true to his cultural roots as an…