आज, जून १४ २०१७, गोविंद बल्लाळ देवल यांची १०१वी पुण्यतिथी आहे
.....and with
apologies to the late Mr. Teniers
पद्य ( राग --- पिलृ : त्रिताल
):
काय पुरुष चळले बाई
॥ ताळ मुळीं
उरला नाहीं ॥
धर्म---नीति ---शास्त्रें पायी
॥ तुडविती कसे
हो ॥धृ०॥
साठ अधिक वर्षें
भरलीं ॥ नातवास
पोरें झालीं ॥
तरिहि नव्या स्त्रीची
मेली ॥ हौस
कशि असे हो
॥१॥ घोडथेरडयांना ऐशा
॥ देति बाप
पोरी कैशा ॥
कांहिं दुजी त्यांच्या
नाशा ॥ युक्ति
कां नसे हो
॥२॥
शास्त्रकुशल मोठे मोठे
॥ धर्म---गुरुहि
गेले कोठें ?॥
काय कर्म असलें
खोटें ॥ त्यांस
नव दिसे हो
('संगीत शारदा', १८९९)
‘An Old Peasant Caresses a Kitchen Maid in a Stable', c 1650
The Artist: David Teniers the Younger (1610-1690)
Mr. Jonathan Jones of The Guardian writes about the picture:
"Gross! An elderly man pays creepy attentions to a young
woman in this glimpse of rural life more than 350 years ago. Teniers used to be
the most famous by far of all painters of “genre scenes”, as paintings of the
everyday were called. Now he is forgotten compared with Vermeer, whose tender
realism moves us more. Teniers reflects a contemptuously hierarchical age when
the lower orders were to be laughed at, but his paintings do show what peasant
villages looked like before the industrial revolution."