Art & Craft

The diversified state of Andhra Pradesh delivers all the aspects of colorful existence right from high-end technology to traditional art and crafts. The art and crafts section consists of amazing categories of handlooms, paintings and handicrafts. To be frank, Andhra Pradesh culture is incomplete without noticing their magnificent art and crafts that cannot be traced anywhere in our country.

Be it metal crafts, stone crafts, toys, sarees, brass ware or paintings, there are highly trained professionals available in this state who are masters in the traditional way of making things. Handlooms from Andhra Pradesh mesmerize not only our people but also foreigners because of their luxurious texture.

Handlooms

The state of Andhra Pradesh is well known for their handloom work and is also called as an old institution of hand-woven cloth materials. The state delivers elite dress materials and sarees possessing distinguished and delicate hand-made designs. Each and every saree comes with a complicated 'pallu' and thin border embellished with golden thread work.

Handicrafts

Indian art & crafts carry a special place for Handicraft items. Andhra Pradesh is just another state to deliver huge collection of amazing and wonderful handicraft items. There are highly trained professionals who are involved in this art with great care and dedication.

Paintings

The rich cultural heritage of Andhra Pradesh is clearly depicted in their art and crafts especially in their paintings. This magnificent form of painting is an ancient tradition of this state. Their paintings involve exceptional work and adroitness of trained professionals. The conventional method of painting involves the usage of natural colors on canvas.

Dances

Rich culture is always prevalent in the state of Andhra Pradesh. A huge collection of performing arts emerged from this state including music, drama and dance to our world. Dance being the most significant type of performing arts is constantly encouraged since centuries in our country. The most popular form of classical dance, Kuchipudi originated from Andhra Pradesh. Categorized to be one among the best dance forms in the world, this Kuchipudi is analogous to Bharat Natyam. Apart from Kuchipudi, there are also other dance forms originated from Andhra Pradesh. Perini, an outstanding dance form also originated here. This is a warrior dance form often referred to dance of god Shiva.

Music

Since olden days, Andhra Pradesh is well known for their luxurious musical heritage. This place is the homeland of three geniuses in Carnatic music world - Shyama Sastri, Muthuswami Dixitar and Thyagaraja. Omnipresent Telugu language in Andhra delivers original effect and spirit of the melodious carnatic music. Few of the popular carnatic music composers include Bhadrachala Ramadasa, Kshetrayya and Annamacharya. This divine form of carnatic music is known to be initiated from holy Gods.

People

Andhra Pradesh carries people from varied religions, communities, lifestyles, custom and also cultures. In short, the inhabitants of Andhra Pradesh are very friendly and maintain perfect harmony amongst each other, in spite of coming from different religions and castes. Andhra Pradesh is a commercial hub for many people coming from various states. Like other Indians, Andhra people are known for their kindness, god-fearing, politeness who likes to maintain religious harmony and communal peace.

Religions

People in Andhra Pradesh are highly pious to follow their own religion. The main religions in this state are Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism and Islam. All around Andhra one can witness people living with various religious practices together with their customs and notions. Large number of temples, stupas, churches and mosques exists in this state. Among all these, Hinduism is the major religion practiced by vast number of people. Muslims are concentrated in Secunderabad and Hyderabad. The tribal populations of Andhra Pradesh live with their own belief.

Festivals & Fairs

The spirits of people are kept alive with festivals and fairs. Similar to other states, religious festivals like Sankranti, Diwali, Eid-ul-Fitr and Holi is celebrated here too. Apart from religious festivals, State Government also organizes various cultural festivals including Rayalaseema Food and Dance Festival, Deccan Festival, Visakha Festival and many more. Few of other significant festivals include Tirupati Festival, Ugadi Festival, Pongal and Lumbini Festival.

Fashion & Dresses

This state is home to few of the finest traditional cloth designing along with dying practices in the world. The large number of cotton production together with their innovative dye isolation from plants is done here. The traditional Golconda mine is the homeland for various precious gems like Hope and Kohinoor diamond. This state dominated world jewelry industry till the year 1826 (till the identification of diamond mines in the place called Rhodisia-Africa). Among 10 of the highly valuable jewelry pieces in the earth, eight of them carry their relevance to Andhra Pradesh. The fashion industry of Andhra Pradesh carries voni(half saree), full sarees designed through Bidri, Nirmal paintings, Kalamkari together with wonderful weaves of Venkatagiri, Pochampalli and Gadwal depicts their ancient (3000 years) tradition. Several gold jewelry models including Aravanke, Vaddana, buttalu, kasula haram are the finest illustrations for their constantly emerging tradition.