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YOU CAN WATCH this presentation with MUSIC on the link: http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/michaelasanda-2325933-raja-ravi-varma2/ Thank you! Raja Ravi Varma, The Most Celebrated Painter of India (1848-1906), probably the first Indian artist to master perspective and the use of the oil medium; the first to use human models to illustrate Hindu gods and goddesses; the first Indian artist to become famous, before him painters and craftsmen were largely unidentified; and the first to make his work available not just to the rich elite but also to common people by way of his oleographs. Dr. Abanindranath Tagore, a revered name in Indian art, rightly said that time, “It is rare to come across men like him, artists like him, lovers of India like him”.
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Raja Ravi Varma (1848-1906) probably the first Indian artist to master perspective and the use of the oil medium; the first to use human models to illustrate Hindu gods and goddesses; the first Indian artist to become famous, before him painters and craftsmen were largely unidentified; and the first to make his work available not just to the rich elite but also to common people by way of his oleographs.Raja Ravi Varma is famous for his paintings based on Indian mythology & epics. He was was born in Kilimanoor Palace in a royal family of those times. His mother was a poet, his father was a Sanskrit scholar and his uncle was an amateur artist, who taught young Ravi his initial art lessons.Varma was the first Indian to use Western techniques of perspective and composition and to adapt them to Indian subjects, styles, and themes. He won the Governor’s Gold Medal in 1873 for the painting Nair Lady Adorning Her Hair. In 1894 he set up a lithographic press in order to mass-produce copies of his paintings as oleographs, enabling ordinary people to afford them. That innovation resulted in the tremendous popularity of his images, which became an integral part of popular Indian culture thereafter.
Prin
cess
Da
ma
yan
thi t
alk
ing
with
Ro
yal S
wa
n a
bo
ut
Na
la
Prin
cess
Da
ma
yan
ti a
nd
Su
de
sha
na
Nala leaving
Princess Damayanti
Princess Damayanti and Sudeshana
Princess Damayanthi abandoned by Nala, sitting alone in forest
Damayanti, a character in Hindu mythology, was the princess of Vidarbha Kingdom, who married king Nala, of Nishadha Kingdom, and their story is told in the Mahabharata
Damayanti
Bharat Milap Bharatha meeting Rama who advice him to rule Ayodhya (Kosala Kingdom) on his behalf
Bharata Painting of child
Bharata in the forest
Bhishma abdicating his right to the throne, in order to get the fisher girl married to his father Shantanu
Kamsa maya (1890)
Kamsa trying to kill the child, shown
Maya by Goddess Durga
Draupadi with her five husbands - the Pandavas
The central figure is Yudhishthira; the two on the
bottom are Bhima and Arjuna. Nakula and
Sahadeva, the twins, are standing.
Dra
up
ad
i an
d S
ud
esh
na
(M
ah
ab
ha
rata
)
Droupathi and Simhika Droupathi taken to forest by Simhika, who plans to kill her
Draupathi in the guise of Syrendri taken to forest by Virata's wife Simhika, who plans to kill her
Draupadi, in disguise carrying honey and milk to the court of Keechaka
Draupadi carrying
honey and milk to the
court of Keechaka
Be
au
tifu
l ap
sara
s U
rva
shi,
in t
he
co
urt
of
Ind
ra
Dra
up
ad
i as
Sa
iran
dh
ri
Keechaka and Sairandhri, 1890
(Draupadi as Sairandhri fends off Kichaka's advances)
Draupadi as humiliated in Virata's durbar (Palace) by Kichaka
Ganga Shantanu
Shantanu stops Ganga from drowning their eighth child, who later was known as Bhishma.
Shantanu woos the fisherwoman, Satyavati(from Mahabharata)
Raja Ravi Varma was the first and the only person in India to have had a personal, special post office, provided to him in view of the high volume of fan mails arriving as cartloads
Ra
dh
a in
tro
du
ced
to
Kris
hn
a
Lord Krishna as the envoy of the Pandavas in the Kaurava court
Krishna as envoy to the Kaurava court before Kurukshetra war. Satyaki takes out his sword when the Kauravas, raise their sword against Krishna
Radha and Sakhi
Radha and Sakhi (fragment)
Radha Waiting for
Krishna
Radha Madhavam
Lord Madhav with his love -
Radha
Jatayu attempting to
save Sita Devi from
Ravana
Ravana cuts
Jatayu's wings
Rama releasing Ahalya from curse
Ramapanchayan,Rama and Sita, with Hanuman,
and Rama's three brothers
Lakshmana, Bharata, and
Shatrughna
SriR
am
a c
on
qu
ers
Va
run
a (
fro
m R
am
aya
na
)
Ra
ma
po
rtra
yed
as
exi
le in
th
e f
ore
st,
acc
om
pa
nie
d b
y h
is w
ife
Sita
an
d b
roth
er
La
ksh
ma
na
Meganathan, after his victory over Indran presenting Sacchi Devi to Ravana
Ma
ha
bh
ara
ta B
irth
of
Sa
kun
tha
la -
Vis
hw
am
itra
re
ject
s th
e c
hild
Sakunthala and Sakhis
Sakunthala
Sakunthala, the heroine of Kalidasa's Sanskrit drama Sakunthalam.Sakunthala writing letter to Dushyantan after she fall in love with him
Sakunthala Pathralekhan
Sakunthala writing a love letter to
Dushyantan on a lotus leaf with her
nail
Sakunthala Pathralekhan
Sakunthala writing a love letter to
Dushyantan on a lotus leaf with her nail
Sakunthala Pathralekhan
Sakunthala writing a love letter to Dushyantan on a lotus
leaf with her nail
Menaka and Sakunthala (1891)
Apsaras Menaka taking her daughter
Sakunthala while she was pregnant and discarded by King
Dushyantha
Sa
kun
tha
la
Sakunthala 1898Looks of Love
Sakunthala looking back at Dushyanthan acting as injured with
a thorn
Sakunthala 1898Looks of Love (detail)
Yasodha and
Krishna
Yasodha and
Krishna
Yashoda milking cow and little Krishna asking for a glass of milk
Child Krishna seated on a tree branch playing his flute
Lord Krishna & Balarama freeing Vasudevar & Devaki after killing
Kamsan
Sound: Jay Sri Krishna from Namaste,album Magical Healing Mantras
Text and pictures: InternetCopyright: All the images belong to their authors
Presentation: Sanda Foişoreanuwww.slideshare.net/michaelasanda
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