The perfect spooky story for #Halloween👹: The Three Living and the Three Dead.
Three young noblemen were out hunting when they came across three animated corpses! The young men are shocked and scared. The corpses tell them to consider the shortness of life, 1/3 #HalloweenEnds
the transient nature of wealth and status, and encourages them to change their ways before it is too late.
This motif became very popular in medieval visual culture, sometimes the Three Dead are rendered as skeletons and sometimes as decaying corpses.
THREAD on Rukmini Varma's Painting
In a time when India was still a land of splendid Maharajahs and fabulous courts, Rukmini Varma was born in 1940 into one of its most ancient royal houses, with an unbroken dynastic lineage of over 1200 years.
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🎨The Rape of Rambha,1980s
Titled Her Highness Bharani Tirunal Rukmini Bayi Tampuran, Fourth Princess of Travancore, Her great great grandfather, Raja Ravi Varma, is considered the Father of Modern Art in India.
🎨 Woman with fan
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Her grandmother, the last Maharani of Travancore, was a patron of many artists, while her father trained under court painters in the 1940s. Rukmini never studied art formally but developed her own style of realist painting through the 1960s
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🎨Nala Damayanthi Early 1980s
A Man guards his family from the cannibals during the Madras famine of 1877 at the time of British Raj, India
1876-1879 famine in India
-Digby estimated 10.3 million people starved to death most of which were in South India (some refer to the tragedy as the Madras famine). 1/n
Maharatna estimated 8.2 million died from hunger and diseases that followed.
British colonial rule argued that famine relief would be an inappropriate response and encourage laziness. Some officials argued the Thomas R Malthus theory that famines are a nature's way for 2/n
population control and argued British government should not intervene. British government continued its policy of "forced export" of food from India in 1876-1879, while the famine swept among its people. The poverty, misery and diseases wiped out villages and families. 3/n
The Bhakti poetess Mira Bai at court surrounded by Ascetic devotees.
Provincial Mughal school, possibly Punjab Hills or Rajasthan,North-Western India, late 18th - early 19th century
-The horizontal composition depicting the Hindu mystic poetess and Lord Krishna's fervent 1/n
devotee Mirabai in the centre, surrounded by a large gathering of naked ascetics, with matted hair and long beards, next to them and to Mirabai a haloed, bejewelled ruler, possibly her
her husband Bhoj Raj crown prince of Mewar in 1516, to the left of Mirabai a vina and in front of her encrusted trays with offerings and spices, one of the ascetics in the foreground performing a full-body frontal bow to pay respect to the poetess, the scene set within ochre 3/n
India bleeds of creativity! From dance.music,movies,to Art ,our country is rich in cultural heritage and home to numerous forms of art. On #WorldArtDay presenting 64 art forms of India
The mastery of as many of the 64 traditional arts. believed that Krishna possesses these #arts
1. Geet vidya: art of singing. 2. Vadya vidya: art of playing on musical instruments. 3. Nritya vidya: art of dancing. 4. Natya vidya: art of theatricals. 5. Alekhya vidya: art of painting. 6. Viseshakacchedya vidya: art of painting the face and body with color
7. Tandulakusumabalivikara: art of preparing offerings from rice and flowers. 8. Pushpastarana: art of making a covering of flowers for a bed. 9. Dasanavasanangaraga: art of applying preparations for cleansing the teeth, cloths and painting the body.
wish u all Happy #Gangaur/Gauri Tritiya.
this festival celebrated mainly in North Indian states especially in Rajasthan and some parts of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana and Gujarat.
The festival commences on the first day of Chaitra and continues for 18 days.
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Women and girls observe fast during this festive time and eat only once in a day. Images of Gauri and Isar (Lord Shiva) are made with the clay and decorated very beautifully. On the other hand, in some of the Rajput families, images are made of wood every year before the festival
they are painted by the famous painters who are called as ‘Matherans’. The images which are made during this time do not have canopies. Women and girls, during the festival, wear new dresses, adorn themselves with jewellery and make designs on their palms and feet by applying
Meerut,U.P, India based Artist Mamta Goel is Creatively carving the leaf 🍂 and showing the Glimpse of India
Here I'm posting her all creation on this thread please take a look .