インドの先駆的な画家、ラジャ・ラヴィ・ヴァルマ(1848-1906)の芸術を探る!彼はヨーロッパの技法とヒンドゥー神話を融合させ、手頃なリトグラフを通じて象徴的で身近な芸術を創造し、近代インドのアイデンティティを形作った。
バンガロール・ヘリテージ・ファンデーションでラジャ・ラヴィ・ヴァルマの遺産を体験しましょう!写実主義とインドの図像学を融合させた、インドの先駆的な芸術家による本物の絵画、スケッチ、アーカイブをご覧いただけます。
At Kilimanur, Ravi Varma and his brother C. Raja Raja Varma housed a large collection of art books, catalogues, postcards and photographs, accumulated while on their many travels, and which served as their constant source material. When required, Ravi Varma did not hesitate to incorporate Western classical postures or heroic stances into his own works. There is perhaps, one known example of Ravi Varma replicating a European painting in its entirety instead of a partial adaptation. On his visit to Baroda in 1888, Ravi Varma had seen Judith, painted by Benjamin Constant in 1886. Judith was a forceful theme and a popular motif with European painters for centuries because it justified the painting of a scantily-dressed