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Raja Ravi Varma (Malayalam: [ɾaːdʒaː ɾɐʋi ʋɐrm(ː)ɐ]) (29 April 1848 – 2 October 1906 [3] [4]) was an Indian painter and artist.His works are one of the best examples of the fusion of European academic art with a purely Indian sensibility and iconography.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Galaxy of Musicians is an 1889 painting by the Indian artist Raja Ravi Varma. ... Ravi Varma focused in one ...
Raja Ravi Varma was one of the leaders of this movement, and employed techniques from well-regarded European artists to represent the Indian ideals of domesticity and femininity. [8] Varma's naturalism , shading, and lighting techniques in his oil paintings were well-regarded among his contemporaries, [ 9 ] though the naturalism in his work ...
Raja Ravi Varma (1848–1906) was a remarkable self-taught Indian painter from the princely state of Travancore. His exposure in the west came when he won the first prize in the Vienna Art Exhibition in 1873. Varma's paintings were also sent to the World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893 and his work was awarded two gold medals. [7]
"Damayanti in the forest". Painting by Raja Ravi Varma.. Kali, incensed that Damayanti had chosen a mortal over any of the deities for her husband, plotted his revenge.He recruited his ally, Dvapara, to help him by manipulating the motions of a dice.
Shakuntala Patra-lekhan is an 1876 painting by Raja Ravi Varma.The work depicts Shakuntala laying on grass, writing a letter to her lover Dushyanta. The work had won praise for Ravi Varma when it was presented at the Madras Fine Arts Exhibition of 1876.
A Reclining Nair lady is a 1902 painting by the Indian artist Raja Ravi Varma. [1] The painting features a recumbent Nair woman, [2] [3] with a book open in front of her while attended by a maid. [2] Varma draw this painting inspired from Edward Manet's 1863 painting Olympia.
Nair lady Adorning Her Hair is an 1873 painting by Raja Ravi Varma. The painting depicts a domestic scene in which a Nair woman adorning her hair with a garland of flowers in front of a mirror. The painting was notable for being the first major award-winning work that Ravi Varma had completed.