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Both are new artforms that were introduced as a way of helping poor villages grow economically.
In another way, they're closer to the Australian aboriginal art that was recently on display at SAM downtown. Intricate, highly patterned and painted in unmixed primary colors, these images in some ways resemble embroidery or needlework. The classical style of Many Arrows is complemented by a show of modern women’s paintings from India’s Mithila region: home of Sita, the mythical heroine of the Ramayana and consort to hero-god Rama. Image: Collection of Gursharan and Elvira Sidhu Nowhere are voluptuous beauties more ripe and alluring than in Hindu paintings-and where else can you find demons that are simultaneously scary and adorable?īack at home, Kanya places rice in a pattern, 1975-1985, pigment on paper, 30 x 22 in. But it offers a taste of the things that make Indian painting so irresistible: spectacular gardens, courageous heroes, lots of battles and blood, and a dreamlike way of conflating space and time so we can witness several events at once. Many Arrows fills just one gallery at SAAM and can’t be compared to the grand scale of Garden and Cosmos, the knockout show of Indian paintings a few years ago that brought crowds streaming through the museum, many for repeat viewings.
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The story is juicy stuff, full of supernatural encounters, monkey armies, and off-with-their-heads bravado, and-lucky us!-we’ll have a chance to see the story enacted when ACT opens its production of Ramayana October 12. A selection of 44 of those images from the 16th through the 20th centuries makes up this exhibition, which opened last week. It has been told in India for more than 2,000 years and illustrated countless times, often with such sophisticated compositions, luscious color, and exquisite technique that the work can bring you to your knees. Many Arrows from Rama’s Bow: Paintings of the Ramayana illustrates the epic story of Rama’s Journey, a sacred text honoring the god Vishnu. In this case, it’s not a soccer game they’re watching but a demon-busting battle from the Ramayana, part of a new show at Seattle Asian Art Museum. For more information, visit the Smithsonian's Terms of Use page.When the gods poke their heads out of the clouds and wave their arms around in excitement, something big must be going on down on planet Earth. You can copy, modify, and distribute this work without contacting the Smithsonian. This image is in the public domain (free of copyright restrictions). 350.Ĭollection Area(s) South Asian and Himalayan Art Web Resources Google Cultural Institute CC0 - Creative Commons (CC0 1.0) Treasures from the Smithsonian Institution., 1st ed.
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Lalit Kala Series of Indian Art New Delhi. Paintings of the Sultans and Emperors of India in American Collections. The Adventures of Rama: with Illustrations from a Sixteenth-Century Mughal Manuscript. Rama in Indian Literature, Art and Thought. Workshop and Patron in Mughal India: The Freer Ramayana and Other Illustrated Manuscripts of 'Abd al-Rahim. Grain Vapor Ray: Textures of the Anthropocene.Freer source) 1839-1914Ĭharles Lang Freer 1854-1919 Published References
Previous Owner(s)Ĭolonel Henry Bathurst Hanna (C.L. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. See also "Miscellaneous" volume of Freer House Catalogue, pgs. See Original Catalogue of the Hanna Sale: Manuscripts I, S.I. Purchased with the Hanna Collection in 1907. Colonel Henry Bathurst Hanna (1839-1914), London, to 1907 Ĭharles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Colonel Henry Bathurst Hanna in 1907 įreer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920