This artwork represents Telangana women in their unique festival of flowers

This painting “Rhythm” is an outstanding work by artist Kishan Kappari. Kishan’s preoccupation with young women with long plaits, becomes his trademark style focusing on the Telangana women and their peculiar activities. Bathukamma is one of the works in which Kappari portrays a very important festive ritual of Telangana. Women make floral arrangements and place them in the center on the ground in order to sing and dance by going around it.  Usually, they are placed in a tricky way showing only their back with dark brunette hair adorned with flowers and hair bands. They speak poetic fantasies, as conversations with the Buddha, herds of cattle in a forest etc. The figures however, are the central characters as well as the viewers, who confront picturesque backdrop, a painting within a painting. Here, the artist undermines the significance of characters, who only cherish or worship the ubiquitous backdrop, where nature, birds and at times the Buddha’s life are conceived as main themes.