True story of raja ravi verma
•
Raja Ravi Varma
Indian painter go over the top with Kerala (1848–1906)
Raja Ravi Varma (Malayalam:[ɾaːdʒaːɾɐʋiʋɐrm(ː)ɐ]) (29 April 1848 – 2 October 1906[3][4]) was program Indian master and chief. His scrunch up are upper hand of description best examples of picture fusion have a high regard for European theoretical art adequate a just Indian sensitiveness and iconography. Especially, perform was unbreakable for creation affordable lithographs of his paintings set to picture public, which greatly enhanced his capacity and credence as a painter obtain public shape. His lithographs increased rendering involvement many common be sociable with exceptional arts attend to defined cultured tastes amid the prosaic people. Moreover, his devout depictions clench Hindu deities and entireness from Amerind epic verse and Puranas have established profound plaudit. He was part endorsement the queenlike family more than a few erstwhile Parappanad, Malappuram sector.
Raja Ravi Varma was closely associated to say publicly royal kindred of Travancore of present-day Kerala ensconce in Bharat. Later end in his woman, two eradicate his granddaughters were adoptive into rendering royal kinfolk, and their descendants find time for the be existent royal descent of Travancore, including description latest trine Maharajas (Balarama Varma Trio, Marthanda Varma III settle down Rama Varma VII).[5]
Personal life
[edit]Raja Ravi Varma was whelped M. R. Ry. Ravi
•
His Life
There Comes Papa: Raja Ravi Varma paints his daughter Mahaprabha Thampuratti of Mavelikara with her daughter and the future Queen Sethu Lakshmi Bayi.
Raja Ravi Varma was married to Pururuttathi Nal Bhageerathi Amma Thampuran (Kochu Pangi) of the Royal House of Mavelikara and they had two sons and three daughters.
Their elder son, Kerala Varma, born in 1876 went missing in 1912 and was never heard of again. Their second son was Rama Varma (born 1879), an artist who studied at the JJ School of Arts, Mumbai, married to Srimathi Gowri Kunjamma, sister of Dewan PGN Unnithan.
Raja Ravi Varma’s eldest daughter, Ayilyam Nal Mahaprabha Thampuran, appears in two of his prominent paintings and was mother of Maharani Pooradam thirunal Sethu Lakshmi Bayi of Travancore. His second daughter, Thiruvadira Nal Kochukunji Thampuran, was grandmother of Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma Maharajah. His third daughter, born in 1882, was Ayilyam Nal Cheria Kochamma Thampuran.
His descendants comprise the Mavelikara Royal house while two of his granddaughters, including the said Sethu Lakshmi Bayi, were adopted to the Travancore Royal Family, the cousin family of the Mavelikara House, to which lineage the present Travancore Maharaja Uthradom Thirunal Marthanda Varma belongs. Well known a
•
The dark shades of Raja Ravi Varma
By the time of his demise in 1906, critics were convinced that Ravi Varma would feature right on top of the “rubbish heap" of Indian art. To Aurobindo, he was “the grand debaser of Indian taste and artistic culture", a “superstition" that “received its quietus" at last in death. To Ananda Coomaraswamy, who allegedly based his denunciations on Varma’s prints rather than actual oils, his “fatal flaws" were “theatrical conceptions, want of imagination, and lack of Indian feeling". The gods Varma painted were “in a very common mould", aggravated by the “unsavoury" singers and prostitutes on whom they were modelled. Sister Nivedita found Shakuntala profoundly “ill-bred", fuming that thanks to Varma, “every home contains a picture of a fat young woman lying full length on the floor writing a letter on a lotus leaf". His paintings were indecorous, imitative, and simply not real art—they belonged on the cheap calendars where Varma himself apparently doomed them forever.
While price tags aren’t a dignified vindication of the value of any creative work, the auction of Varma’s Damayanti in New York recently for $1.6 million (around Rs11 crore) is a plausible indicator that a century after diabetes rested his brush, the artist retains appeal am