Friday 18 November 2022

Radha Krishna: Divinity with Serenity



One of my favorite artworks felt a lot of compassion and love .....Not to many colours but the serenity pf the pastel shades really soothes your mind. I gifted this to one of my favorite persons "Sanjay Sharma " 
This artwork has been inspired by BG Sharma the famous Indian artist


  Ajesh Sharma has been one of my best patrons i did this painting for his new house as he was a huge fan of Van Gogh. He threw a party in honor of this painting to the HSBC Gang


 

My Friend Phanis Sister:

I normally do not take portrait commissions but this dear friend of mine in Hyderabad requested me for his kid sister portrait who had unfortunately passed away in 1991.

The Photograph intrigued me as she had curiosity and divine innocence in her eyes.

In the end when i handed over the portrait to Phani tears rolled down his cheeks and he hugged me that perhaps was the best award for my labor


 

One of my last major canvases Kali Ma - Always fascinated by the ferocious yet attractive demeanor 
Philosophy- The goddess kali meaning in Hinduism and hindu mythology is a manifestation of the Divine Mother. It is an hindu god that represents the female principle. Those not comprehending her many meanings and roles in life call Kali the goddess of destruction. She destroys only to recreate, and what she destroys is sin, ignorance and decay.
The mother goddess is equated with the eternal night meaning, and is the transcendent power of time, Kali or Maha-Kali, is the consort of the god Shiva. In myth, it is Shiva who destroys the world, and Kali is the power or energy with which Shiva acts. So, she is Shiva’s Shakti
, without which Shiva could not act.
 
The mother kali is a pre-Aryan goddess of time and divine feminine. She belongs to the civilization of the Indus Valley. There is no evidence that Aryan people ever raised a female deity to the rank that she held in the Indus. And currently she maintains it in Hinduism.
The mother goddess is equated with the eternal night meaning, and is the transcendent power of time, Kali or Maha-Kali, is the consort of the god 
Shiva. In myth, it is Shiva who destroys the world, and Kali is the power or energy with which Shiva acts. So, she is Shiva’s Shakti
, without which Shiva could not act.
 
The mother kali is a pre-Aryan goddess of time and divine feminine. She belongs to the civilization of the Indus Valley. There is no evidence that Aryan people ever raised a female deity to the rank that she held in the Indus. And currently she maintains it in Hinduism.
The name Kali Ma comes from Kalma. It is a hunter of tombs and eater of the dead. She had this name in Finland. Also the name of the Black Goddess.
European “witches” worshipped her in funeral places.
For the same reasons, the Tantric yogis and dakinis worshipped her in cremation grounds, as Smashana-Kali, Lady of the Dead.
Former pagans adored her in cemeteries as the Black Mother Earth. There the Roman tombstones invoked her with the phrase Mater genuit, Mother receipt-the Mother bore me, the Mother took me back.
Sometimes Kali, the Destroyer, wore red symbolizing the blood that she gave and took back. “as She devours all existence, as She chews all things existing with Her fierce teeth. So a mass of blood is the apparel of the Queen of the Gods at the final dissolution.”
 
The gypsies in their worship of Kali ma Goddess of disease, clothed her in red. Red is the proper color of gypsy funerals.

 

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