Cool Arts & Paintings

Raja Ravi Varma Paintings Part II – Paintings Based On Hindhu Mythology

Sangeetha — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 13:10:25 +0000

As we mentioned in Part I Raja Ravi Varma was a great painter and many of his famous paintings are based on Hindu mythology. He gave life to the characters of Ramayana and Mahabharata with his paintings. He is particularly noticed with his paintings on Nala and Damayanti, Dushyanta and Shakuntala. His paintings of mythological characters received accolades from art lovers around the world. See few of his great paintings based on Hindu mythology.

Goddess Lakshmi – Painting of Hindu goddess Lakshmi

Goddess Saraswathi – Paintings of Hindu goddess Saraswathi

Viswamithra And Menaka – Menaka and Viswamithra sitting in an ashram

Birth Of Shakunthala - Viswamithra refusing to accept his daughter Shankunthala from Menaka

Sakunthala – Looks of love - Sankunthala looking back to Dushyanthan acting as she is injured with thorn

Shakunthala - Shakunthala sitting under a palmyrah tree, lost in thouhts

Shakunthala Pathra Lekhan - Shakunthala writing letters to Dushyanthan after fall in love with him

Sankunthala - Sakunthala sitting with her friends

Menaka And Shakunthala - Menaka and his daughter Shakunthala

Hamsa Damayanthi - Princess Damayanthi talking with royal swan about her lover Nalan

Swan Messenger - Princess Damayanthi sending the royal swan as a messenger to Nalan

Nala Damayanthi - Nala leaving Damayanthi while she is in a deep sleep

Damayanthi Vanavasa – Damayanti is sitting alone in forest abandoned by Nalan

Kamsa Maya – Kamsa is trying to kill the child, shown maya by goddess Durga

Birth Of Krishna – Vasudeva and Devaki escaping from prison after the birth of Krishna

Yesoda With Krishna – Lord SriKrishna with his foster mother Yesoda when he was child

Yesoda And Krishna

Yesoda Adorning Krishna – Yesoda adorning little Krishna with beautiful ornaments

Bharatha – Painting of Bharatha in forest when he was a child

Sri Krishna Liberating his parents – Sri Krishna along with his brother Balarama liberating his parents after killing uncle Kamsa

Introducing Radha To Krishna

Radha Madhava – Love scene of Krishna and Radha

RadhaIs WaitingFor Krishna -Radha is waiting for her lover Sri Krishna eagerly in garden

Sree Krishna as Envoy – Sree Krishna, as Envoy of Pandavas in Kaurava Court,

Droupathy With Simhika – Droupathy is taken to forest by simhika who plans to kill her

Droupathi In Virata’s Palace

Sree Rama Breaking The Bow – Lord Sree Rama breaking the bow to win Sita as his wife

Sree Rama Crossing Sarayu river – Sree Rama along with Sita and Lakshmana crossing the Sarayu river

Jadayu Vadha- Ravana is killing Jatayu who encountering Ravana to save Sree Rama’s wife Sita

Sita Taken By Goddess Earth – Sita’s mother Goddess Earth is taking her deep into at Sree Rama’s court

Sree Rama Vanquishing the sea – Varuna the Lord of ocean, pacifying Sri Rama, angered at the intransigence of the sea to give way to enter Lanka

Santhanu and Matsyagandhi – King Santhanu falling in love with Matsyagandhi

Shantanu and Ganga – Shantanu trying to stop Ganga while trying to throw child in the river

Keechaka and Sairandhri – Keechaka trying to woo Sairandhri

Sairandhri – Draupadi disguised as Sairandhri going to the court of Keechaka carrying milk and honey

Syrendri – Draupadi, in the guise of Syrendri with Virata’s wife

Harischandra in Distress – Harischandra having lost his kingdom and all the wealth parting with his only son in an auction

Harischandra and Tharamathi – Harischandra in cremation ground where Tharamathi comes withtheir dead son Harischandra and Tharamathi – Harischandra in cremation ground where Tharamathi comes with their dead son

Arjuna and Subhadra – Arjuna disguised as Sanyasi, with Balarama’s daughter Subhadra

Mohini and Rugmangada – Mohini asking Rugmangada to kill his own son

Shakunthala With her Friends

Amazing Paintings By Louis Aston Knight

Sangeetha — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:03:54 +0000

Louis Aston Knight, a famous American artist born in Paris, France in 1873 as the son of great painter Daniel Ridgway Knight lived to be known one of the greatest painters in history. He was famous for his landscape paintings and even U.S. President Warren G. Harding was impressed on his ‘Afterglow’ paintings and purchased it to hang it in the White House. Here we present to you few of his masterpiece paintings.

A Bend in the River

Cottage Garden at Martigny

“Fleur au bord de la Riviere”

Diane’s Cottage

Summer Garden, Normandy

Amazing Flower Paintings By Leonid Afremov

Sangeetha — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 17:55:07 +0000

Leonid Afremov, is a famous Belarusian painter who created a wonderful language in painting with his pallette-knife rather than with a brush. He took his graduation from Vitebsk Art School. He is very much interested to portrait unique land scapes, city scapes and figures through his paintings.

See his great words

“I tried different techniques during my career, but I especially fell in love with painting with oil and pallette-knife. Every artwork is the result of long painting process; every canvas is born during the creative search; every painting is full of my inner world. Each of my paintings brings different mood, colors and emotions. I love to express the beauty, harmony and spirit of this world in my paintings. My heart is completely open to art. Thus, I enjoy creating inspired and beautiful paintings from the bottom of my soul. Each of my artworks reflects my feelings, sensitivity, passion, and the music from my soul. True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depresshis studio was broken into and vandalised.”

For more details visit here

Jeune Femme A La Fontaine To Be Sold At Sotheby’s

Sangeetha — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:07:57 +0000

“Jeune femme a la fontaine,” by Jean Baptiste Camille Corot is expected to be sold at Sotheby’s for an estimated $1.8 million on 2nd July 2010. The 19th century master piece painting has a long and interesting history and were once owned by Hamburg banker Eduard Ludwig Behrens and a patron of Claude Monet. At one point the painting was in the custody of NAZIs as they had stolen this from the Behrens.

The painting was later returned to the heirs of Goerg Behrens. Goerg Behrens was arrested in the NAZI rule and sent to the concentration camp in 1938. The heirs however prefer to remain anonymous. Behrens had the most valuable art collection during this period in Europe. “Jeune femme a la fontaine” remained hung for over 66 years at Kroller-Muller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands.

African Art

Sangeetha — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:46:12 +0000

One may find African art primitive and old, but see the usage of colors, they are rich and satisfying. African art resembles closely with the mural art forms. Like in mural paintings the objects used for coloring are mostly from the nature. These art forms are age old and carry a tradition of its own.

Sculptures With Difference

Sangeetha — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:21:20 +0000

Sculptures often have so much to offer more than eyes can meet. They are often strange for common man. The sculptor designs the model after taking into consideration lot of things including the ambiance, landscape, the importance of the sculpture, relationship of the model to the history and culture and more importantly what it should convey. Here are some of the sculptures we found interesting at the same time are different from what we see in normal life.

Cool Paintings

Sangeetha — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:11:55 +0000

The artist is able to provide life to these beautiful paintings. The landscapes are done with much details and colors are extra ordinary. The skill of the artist is so much so that his works resembles photographs of the plots he has drawn.

Amazing Canvas Paintings

Sangeetha — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:28:12 +0000

Canvas paintings are special. It can create lot of difference to a wall or even the ambience where it belong to. Canvas art is a tedious job and for that reason just a few blessed one amongst us are doing this. The rarity ofsuch creations make these paintings precious than even diamonds.

Nature A Good Painter

Sangeetha — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:20:54 +0000

Nature is a good painter. With changing seasons mother nature changes its appearance like in slide projector. Painters and photographers are the ones that take inspiration from the splendid art created by the nature. Here are few excerpts of such masterpieces.

Feather Paintings – An Exclusive Art

Sangeetha — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:22:38 +0000

Bird’s feather, is one among the favourite objects giving wings to inspirations of artists. It is used to write or paint or to decorate the masterpieces itself. The art of painting on feathers is one of the finest arts which need care and patience. These unique creations on the bird’s feathers are best viewed up close and personal unlike many other paintings which can be viewed from a distance.