Folk paintings in Rajasthan attained high standard and artist won the great fame in this art. The themes are from the epic and heoric rajput tales. Usually at every entrance the conventional guardians of the door, dwarpalakas, are shown on the walls of either side. The popular Ganghor festival so dear to every Rajasthani heart, when Ish (Ishwar) and Parvati are worshipped, has place i these wall ensembles.

The images of Srinathji and Jamnaji, his wife, around which the famous are of pichwai developed on cloth, have a counterpart small hand-size ones produced on thin paper for sale at a very nominal price. They are in brilliant tints and very effective. Not only ad hoc pictures of animals, but whole thematic tales are worked out around animals like Jataka tales which have animals as their central characters. The striking feature of this picturisation is simple and natural manner in which the artist has invested the animals with human emotions so that they rise to heights of heorism, compassion, and self-sacrifice.

The typical rajasthani style of painting has never shaken off its folk character. The tradition of painting the walls of houses with scenes from mytholoogical and chivalric tales, is an old one, in rajasthan. These are now made on horizontal cloth scrolls.

The phad depicts the lives of locl heroes. The use of vibrant colours, bold lines, a two dimensional traeatment of figures with the entire composition arranged in sections are some of the unique features of phad paintings.

The pichwai painting of rajasthan, is used as a backdop for the statue of the temple deity. Originally made for the temple on festive occasions, this type of painting came to be sold to pilgrims and gradually got commercialized. The favourite god here is krishna, who seems to be omnipresent in rajasthani art.

The chitaras (painters) of mewar - illustrate manuscipts, decorate walls, doors and windows, make portraitsand the erotic paintings are frequently given as dowry item, in marriages.