Traces of art and craft are found everywhere in India. People in remotest parts of this country are busy in finding a way or other to express their inner feelings. Using the basic material available to them, they create artistic pieces that are attractive in their rudimentary simplicity. India's folk art paintings are India's pride, for they are the untouched specimens of an age old tradition.
For centuries, these paintings that adorned the homes and courtyards of villagers and tribes were dismissed as irrelevant and primitive forms of expression that hardly amounted to the richness and refinement associated with true art. It was only as late as the beginning of the twentieth-century that scholars began to take notice of India's folk art paintings and give them the credit they deserved.
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