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Women in this century have assumed many roles and responsibilities which were perhaps not possible for them to shoulder before. And they do so with utmost grace, so much so that people suppose it all comes natural to them. What one doesn’t realise is the strength that goes behind being such an exemplar of beauty, hard-work, and patience. These qualities of women should go far from being unnoticed. My paintings intend to celebrate the very essence of being a woman. In the times we live in, it is ironic how women are often robbed of respect because they do not fit into the standards we set for them. We call them goddesses on one hand and on the other, we try to shame them, subdue them. Through these paintings, I intend to show how synonymous “woman” is with “goddess” by highlighting the beauty and resilience of the feminine energy.

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Neelkant Choudhary

Born in 1962 in Bihar, Neelkant remains loyal to the traditional Madhubani templates, he has innovated with icons and figures in a manner no contemporary painter has. The sheer variety of Neelkant’s Madhubanis set them apart.
He belongs to the Madhubani School but is a bold individualist in his work. His motifs are traditional as well as modern- form of depictions of Durga and Kali to charwomen and village children walking to school. He brings to Madhubani painting the freshness of his keen and his courage to experiment and innovate. He is passionately devoted to this art form.

“Traditional Madhubani art is my essential form but my effort has been to bring new, more contemporary images to a style that was becoming stagnant and typecast.
"My work is a merger of the traditional and modern. My motifs derive as much from the streets of New Delhi. My medium varies from vegetable dyes to water colour, oils and inks. If Madhubani has to survive, it has to adapt to the times without necessarily deserting its traditional essentials”
-Neelkant Choudhary