Tanjore Painting and Patachitra of West Bengal

Origin: Thanjavur painting is a classical South Indian painting

style, originating in the town of Thanjavur (anglicised as Tanjore)
in Tamil Nadu. The art form draws its immediate resources and
inspiration from way back about 1600 AD, a period when the
Nayakas of Thanjavur under the suzerainty of the Vijayanagara
Rayas encouraged art—chiefly, classical dance and music—as
well as literature, both in Telugu and Tamil and painting of
chiefly Hindu religious subjects in temples.
On the other hand, The Bengal Patachitra refers to the painting
of West Bengal and Bangladesh. It is a traditional and
mythological heritage of West Bengal. The Bengal Patachitra is
divided into some different aspects like Durga Pat, Chalchitra,
Tribal Patachitra, Medinipur Patachitra, and Kalighat
Patachitra.

Similar themes and Motifs: Similar themes in Tanjore

paintings include Bal Krishna, Lord Rama, as well as other gods,
goddesses, saints and subjects from Hindu mythology. In the
olden days, Tanjore paintings were executed by the Raju
community of Tanjore and Tiruchy and the Naidu community of
Madurai. They are mainly of Hindu origin.
In Patachitra, There are many types of Pots like religious, secular.
Religious pots encompass the story of Hindu epics like,
mythology, Ramayana, Mahabharata narrating stories of Hindu
gods and goddesses like Radha Krishna, Chaitanya, Kali, Shiba
and the indigenous Bengali folklore of Manasha and Chandi,
Behula and Lakshinder being the most popular. Every Patachitra
has a song related to it, which the artists sing while unfurling the
Patachitra. Singing pot in Bengal is called Patua Sangeet. Patua
Sangeet or Poter Gan is a cultural tradition of the singing Bengal

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Patachitra. It is performed by Patua.[35] It is famous in the
village part of West Bengal like Birbhum, Jhargram, Bardhaman
(Burdwan) and Murshidabad as a folk song of West Bengal. Here
also we find that the most common religion in this type of art is
Hinduism of ancient Bengal.