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P3305
- Record Id:
- 032-003267342
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003267342
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181445.0x000ecf
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- P3305
- Title:
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Guha rows Rama, Sita and Laksmana across the Ganges
- Scope & Content:
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Oleographic print after Ravi Varma’s painting, printed at the Ravi Varma Press, Lonavla, c. 1901, with the imprimatur of the Bombay picture dealer Ananta Shivaji Desai.
Ravi Varma (1848-1906) was the first Indian artist to enjoy the kind of widespread fame that important mainstream western artists could achieve. Originally from Kerala, he enjoyed a pan-Indian reputation. He produced many oil paintings based on the Ramayana and he and his brother Raja marketed oleographs of them and his other Hindu themes. Instead of naively following iconographic norms, as did the Calcutta Art Studio, he jettisoned them all in favour of a naturalistic aesthetic effect based on the Indian concept of bhava or emotion. Here Rama and Laksmana are obviously still just boys and the prescribed blueness of Rama’s skin has been abandoned. The subject’s success rests on its understated theme of Guha’s bhakti or devotion to the service of the god Rama. The Varmas’ commercial efforts were not financially successful but led to the growth of a huge market for cheap popular prints of Hindu themes
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003267342
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003267342
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- Western India/Bombay style
Western Indian style - Start Date:
- 1900
- End Date:
- 1902
- Date Range:
- c 1901
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: oleograph
- Exhibitions:
- The Ramayana, The British Library, 15 May 200 - 19 September 2008
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Subjects:
- Hindu divinities
Hindu imagery