Indian painter raja ravi varma biography
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Biographies
Raja Ravi Varma ( &#; ) Raja Ravi Varma was born in Kilimanoor Palace as the son of Umamba Thampuratti and Neelakandan Bhattathiripad. At the age of seven years he started drawing on the palace walls using charcoal. His uncle Raja Raja Varma noticed the talent of the child and gave preliminary lessons on painting. At the age of 14, Ayilyam Thirunal Maharaja took him to Travancore Palace and he was taught water painting by the palace painter Rama Swamy Naidu. After 3 years Theodor Jenson, a British painter taught him oil painting. Most of his paintings are based on Hindu epic stories and characters. In he won the First Prize at the Madras Painting Exhibition. He became a world famous Indian painter after winning in Vienna Exhibition. He also manufactured oleographic reproductions of his art, which are described by a gallery in this way: Ravi Verma was the scion of the Travancore family and was one of the earliest pioneers of the modernist, figura
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Raja Ravi Varma: A Fine Mixture of European Realism and Indian Sensibility
Raja Ravi Varma () was one of the most celebrated and prominent artists from India. His works combined European realism with Indian sensibility. For his paintings, Varma took inspiration from diverse sources like the chanting of Vedic verses, the Kathakali dance dramas, and the artistic interpretations of Sanskrit epics namely, Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Varma also printed affordable oleographs of his paintings, making his artworks accessible to the Indian public. Varma won many awards for his paintings and in a crater on Mercury was named after him!
Varma was born into an aristocratic family at Kilimanoor Palace in the former princely state of Travancore, present-day Kerala, India. His father was a scholar of Sanskrit and Ayurveda. His mother was a poet and writer who composed music for Kathakali dance dramas. The Kingdom of Travancore was a matrilineal society in which family lineage was traced t
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Raja Ravi Varma: Controversy of India's most iconic artist
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India's influential king of "kitsch" broke rules and blazed a trail. Kalpana Sunder explores his remarkable life, work and legacy.
Doe-eyed Menaka, the nymph, tempting the sage Vishwamitra; Goddess Lakshmi, the deity of wealth, standing majestically on a lotus; the god Vishnu riding on his half-bird half-human mount Garuda, a serpent in its talons; a woman holding a fruit, her eyes full of innocence – almost everyone in India (especially South India) has a Raja Ravi Varma (RRV) print somewhere in the house, often in the puja room (the room where frakt are worshipped in a Hindu home).
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