Raja Ravi Varma Paintings Part II – Paintings Based On Hindhu Mythology
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
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
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
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.”
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Jeune Femme A La Fontaine To Be Sold At Sotheby’s
“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
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
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
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
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
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.
Coffee Art
Art can really be on anything. Artistic thoughts and creations has no bounds. Creations like coffee art is the result of some innovative thoughts. With a little milk, and with a cup of coffee, chocolate, cappuccino you can make anything you imagine.
