The greenroom of a performance - a study in poster colors during the age of 16.

This is a greenroom ( makeup room) of a classical performance. Here, just before the opening up of a play of an Indian epic, the performers of the classical theater of  the dance drama , KATHAKALI, are getting ready for their roles by finishing their costuming and makeup! The main figure in the center of the picture ,who is ready to set out for his role on the stage ,bows before the greenroom-lamp before beginning his role in the play so as to make a start of the performance !The character is of royal hood that tells the story of the triumph of the five princes of Pandava  against the hundred ones of Kaurava (Pandava and Kaurava denote the two ancestry of the Indian Vedic period).The eldest of the hundred ones is depicted here as the character who bows before the lamp in the center of the greenroom , the yellow costumed character facing against is the character of Lord Krishna who had proved to be the key of success to the five princes over the hundred ones. The performer is yet to finish his costuming and having the final touches of ornamentation with the help of the assistant stood against him.Another one is the female character who stands left to the figure in the center and who is almost finished the makeup.( I have done this picture when I was sixteen years old and the medium is poster color on paper).This greenroom imagery has been recreated by me out of the memories of the performing nights in the festival seasons in Kerala, the southern part of

Performers getting ready for the play, one of my teenage renderings in poster color on paper

India .