Raja Ravi Varma, the Classical Artist from India
posted on 1 January 2011 | posted in
Arts and Entertainment
While my friends peruse the well known classical artists (oh how they love to collect Turner, Renoir and Van Gogh canvas prints in particular), I enjoy the talents of a more local (to me) artist: Raja Ravi Varma. He was born in Kerala in 1848. He belonged to a princely family in Kerala. His father Neelakanthan Bhattathiripad was a scholar. His mother Umayamba Thampuratti was a poet and a writer. He was trained in water painting by Ramaswamy Naidu and oil painting by Theodor Jenson. The most number of his paintings took scenes from the Indian Epics, the Mahabharatha and Ramayana. His paintings show the union of Indian traditions and the techniques of European art. His main works are Village Belle, Lady Lost in Thought, Shakuntala, Nair Woman, Romancing Couples etc. While seeing his paintings we cannot take back our eyes from them. We feel that the picture is very living, talking to and walking to us. The pictures are so realistic that a digital camera copies an image. Hence I advise everybody to see his paintings at least once in life. He bade farewell to the world in 1906.
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