Describe the most important features of the culture of your region, focusing on buildings, performing arts and painting.
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buildings
Architectural influences from different eras continue to be a part of the region. There are buildings of public and private use that show influences of Terracotta, Indo- Saracenic, Islam and British. The city of Calcutta used to be the Capital of India during the British reign and so it has a lot of buildings reflecting the British culture. There are various temples, mosques, churches, rajbaris (Home of the aristocratic people in the olden times).Calcutta was once known as the 'City of Palaces'. With the growing status as a cosmopolitan, Kolkata has flats coming up in its newer region.
performing art
The amazing influence of regional music further increases the rich heritage of the region. Baul singing is perhaps the most famous of all the traditional singing of the yore. This involves singing a folk song about God, and one can see the powerful emotions that such type of singing evokes. The singer has his/ her eyes closed, completely lost in the moment- as if in a trance. There are other forms of folk singing too like Gombhira, Bhawaiya and kirtans etc. The region also has certain influences of the Indian Classical Music and Rabindrasangeet- made famous by the genius all rounder, Rabindranath Tagore is considered to be a contemporary music option. In short, West Bengal has quite a rich variety of music.
Traditional dance forms like Chau originated in the state of West Bengal, where people wear huge colourful masks and dance.
painting
Bengal is credited to be the forerunner of modern contemporary art with famous artists like Abanindranath Tagore, Gaganendranath Tagore, Jamini Roy, Rabindranath Tagore being among the forefront to promote modernization of art in the country. Abanindranath Tagore is sometimes referred to as the 'Father of Modern Indian Art', and he went on to establish the Bengal School of Art to promote artistic styles out of the European influence. Even before the advent of modernisation, there are numerous references to terracotta art and Kalighat paintings which show that art was loved since a long time in the region. After independence, a lot of graffiti with a political propaganda went up on various walls of the state painting witty banters, limericks and of course party promotion. This continues to be popular even now. Due to a ban imposed on painting graffiti on private walls, the paintings are restricted to club walls.