The painting is divide into horizontal rows each with symmetrical figures. The artist has formalised the buds, the flowers, humans and animals in her own way, reducing them to highly simplified two-dimensional motifs. Each section is separated from the other by uneven geometrical patterns. The four-sided border follows the pattern of the main painting. This particular motif is remarkable in abstract pictorialization. The figures are recognizable as an abstracted image of what they represent. The figures are depicted in profile and are linear in form. They are related to each other by color and linear rhythm. The colors within the thin, wavering and nervous lines are rather subdued.
Some of the Madhubani paintings are narrative in character, but a majority of them are first glimpses of life environments and nature, like this one. The geometric distortions here make the forms acquire a strange tone of potent dignity and an air of fantastic strangeness
This description by Renu Rana.
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