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Representing India, Ravi Varma entered ten of his paintings at the World’s Columbian Exhibition at Chicago in 1893, under the banner of the World’s Columbian Commission set up by the Government of the United States of America. It was one of the grandest of the mammoth international expositions of the 19th century.
Oct 1, 2020 · Ravi Varma made the paintings for Rs 27,000 for the Maharaja, who was a devi bakht, and the majority of his work portrayed different manifestations of the supreme power. Ravi Varma hailed the glorious actions of Rama and Krishna through his drawings knowing the Yadava-Kshatriya lineage of the Mysore royal family.
Raja Ravi Varma: A Poet of Aesthetic and Cultural Confluence. Philadelphia-based Patrick Connors, a lecturer at Yale University, analyses Ravi Varma's paintings, vis-a-vis their technical specifications. He dwells on Chiaroscuro techniques and composition of each painting from the perspective of a present-day artist. By Raja Ravi Varma Heritage ...
Sep 2, 2022 · Raja Ravi Varma’s Draupadi Vastraharan Image Source. It is no secret that Raja Ravi Varma’s paintings are sacred in their own ways. Over 130 years after its creation, the painting titled Draupadi Vastraharan went under the hammer for the first time on April 6, 2022. It was sold for a massive Rs 21.16 crore in an auction.
In this painting, Raja Ravi Varma portrays Dattatreya as a yogi with three heads and six hands with each representing god from this Trimurti (Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva). The hands hold various symbolic items of each god. A pair of hands hold a chakra and conch of Lord Vishnu. Another pair carries a trishul and drum, the symbols of Lord Shiva.
Raja Ravi Varma, A Galaxy of Musicians. Raja Ravi Varma, A Galaxy of Musicians, 1889, oil on canvas. 49 x 43 inches (Sri Jayachama Rajendra Art Gallery, Jaganmohan Palace, Mysore, Karnatak) A Galaxy of Musicians, one of Ravi Varma’s most famous paintings, depicts 11 Indian women who appear to be in the midst of an elaborate musical performance.
According to art historians, Raja Ravi Varma's dramatic history paintings influenced the pioneers of Indian cinema like Dadasaheb Phadke and Baburao Painter. Raja Ravi Varma excelled as a portrait painter as well as a painter of various other genres like history painting, painting of female figures and so on.
