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राजा रवी वर्मा आणि दीनानाथ दलाल हे महाराष्ट्रातील दोन सर्वात जास्त लोकप्रिय चित्रकार असावेत... त्यांच्या प्रतिमा आपल्या समोर नेहमी येत असतात...
राजा रवी वर्मा यांच्या कलेचा तर हिंदू धर्मावर मोठा प्रभाव आहे असच म्हणावे लागेल... जगात एका १९-२०व्या शतकातील चित्रकाराचा एवढा मोठा प्रभाव एका प्रमुख धर्मावर असण याच दुसर उदाहरण मला तरी माहित नाही
२०१७सालच्या "The Hindu" दैनिकात आलेली माहिती पहा:
"But it is the artist Raja Ravi Varma, who perhaps had the greatest influence on Navaratri dolls. His oleographs, found in the puja rooms of most households set off an unprecedented demand for images/sets/friezes of the same kind. A prized possession in many homes is a set of six scenes from the Ramayana, all directly copied from Ravi Varma. These comprise the breaking of the bow, the crossing of the Ganga, the killing of Jatayu, Sita in Ashoka Vana, the crossing of the ocean and the Pattabishekam. Similarly, the iconic Lakshmi and Saraswathi as depicted by the painter became the standard for all clay dolls of these two goddesses.
As for Adi Sankara, the only image we have of him is as depicted by Ravi Varma. The seer, either alone or with four disciples as seen in the painting, is a fixture in most kolus. Much rarer, but still to be found in a few homes are the porcelain dolls inspired by the postures struck by Ravi Varma’s heroines. All of these were made in Germany in the pre-Second World War years. Today’s China-made Hindu idols are therefore nothing new. The demand exists and so supply will happen, from somewhere or the other! Ravi Varma’s Sakuntala and Menaka, Ahalya, Hamsa Damayanti and Saraswathi were all made in porcelain and shipped out."
राजा रवी वर्मा आणि दीनानाथ दलाल हे महाराष्ट्रातील दोन सर्वात जास्त लोकप्रिय चित्रकार असावेत... त्यांच्या प्रतिमा आपल्या समोर नेहमी येत असतात...
राजा रवी वर्मा यांच्या कलेचा तर हिंदू धर्मावर मोठा प्रभाव आहे असच म्हणावे लागेल... जगात एका १९-२०व्या शतकातील चित्रकाराचा एवढा मोठा प्रभाव एका प्रमुख धर्मावर असण याच दुसर उदाहरण मला तरी माहित नाही
२०१७सालच्या "The Hindu" दैनिकात आलेली माहिती पहा:
"But it is the artist Raja Ravi Varma, who perhaps had the greatest influence on Navaratri dolls. His oleographs, found in the puja rooms of most households set off an unprecedented demand for images/sets/friezes of the same kind. A prized possession in many homes is a set of six scenes from the Ramayana, all directly copied from Ravi Varma. These comprise the breaking of the bow, the crossing of the Ganga, the killing of Jatayu, Sita in Ashoka Vana, the crossing of the ocean and the Pattabishekam. Similarly, the iconic Lakshmi and Saraswathi as depicted by the painter became the standard for all clay dolls of these two goddesses.
As for Adi Sankara, the only image we have of him is as depicted by Ravi Varma. The seer, either alone or with four disciples as seen in the painting, is a fixture in most kolus. Much rarer, but still to be found in a few homes are the porcelain dolls inspired by the postures struck by Ravi Varma’s heroines. All of these were made in Germany in the pre-Second World War years. Today’s China-made Hindu idols are therefore nothing new. The demand exists and so supply will happen, from somewhere or the other! Ravi Varma’s Sakuntala and Menaka, Ahalya, Hamsa Damayanti and Saraswathi were all made in porcelain and shipped out."
