Artists beautify city walls ahead of ‘Maa Madurai Vizha’
The Hindu
Artists beautify Madurai streets with portraits ahead of 'Maa Madurai Vizha' to showcase city's culture and development.
Artists are beautifying walls in Madurai streets ahead of the ‘Maa Madurai Vizha’ scheduled to take place from August 8 to August 11.
The four-day event would be held at Tamukkam Grounds, Lakshmi Sundaram Hall, Mahatma School, MADITSSIA Hall, Vandiyur Lake and along the Vaigai.
Paintings and artwork on the walls are believed to beautify city in addition to making the event reach a larger audience. Some of the important art works could be seen on walls of Aavin, Kuruvikaran Salai bridge, Periyar bus stand, and St. Mary’s church wall among others.
Artworks carried out on the wall of Aavin are to carry portraits of everyday humans we see on the streets of Madurai city.
Explaining this concept of taking up the newer idea of bringing portraits on walls, S. Santhosh Kumar of Create Artists said, unlike metro cities, portrait paintings could not be seen in many places in Madurai.
“Even if known faces can be seen here and there, the idea of portrait as an art seems to be not conceived well by the people. So, instead of drawing the known faces again, we decided to use faces of unrecognised common people to recognise them through the paintings,” he added.