Folk paintings are symbolic expressions of village painters which are noticeable by the subjects chosen from epics like Ramayana and Mahabharata, Hindu `Purana`s as well as each day village life, birds and animals and usual objects like sun, moon, plants and trees. The color used develop vast range of vivid vibrant colors to passive low hues, but mostly derivative from the expected material, while papers, clothes, foliage, earthen pots, stone and mud walls are used as canvas.
Indian Folk paintings did not appear in sequential order but develop in various district of India depending mainly upon the rural culture, fabulous stories and everyday rituals. The different kind of Folk paintings are `Pata`s of Bengal and Orissa, Talpatrachitra of Orissa, Madhubani or Mithila fashion, Rajasthani Painting, Pahari painting, Jain art at Gujrat, Warli painting of Maharastra, Thakga, Monpa and special South Indian Folk Paintings.