RAJA RAVI VARMA(Classic Indian painter from Kerala.)

RAVI VARMA -A GREAT WORLD FAMOUS AMAZING OIL-PAINTER:

                                                        An artist who is credited with bringing about a momentous turn
 in the art of India, Raja Ravi Varma inexorably influenced future
 generations of artists from different streams. He was the first artist
 to cast the Indian Gods and mythological characters in natural 
earthy surroundings using a European realism; a depiction adopted 
not only by the Indian “calendar-art”- spawning ubiquitous images 
of Gods and Goddesses, but also by literature and later by the
 Indian film industry- affecting their dress and form even today. 
His dazzling oil paintings of India’s ancient glory delighted 
turn-of-the-century India and his mass reproductions through 
oleography reached out to the Indian populace in an unprecedented 
scale.

Born on April 29, 1848, in Kilimanoor, a small hamlet in the southern state of Kerala, Ravi Varma belonged to a family of scholars, poets and artists. Noted in his family were, among others, Vidwan Koil Tampuran, author of the famous Kathakali work Ravana Vijayam, Raja Raja Varma, who painted after the Tanjore style, and Uma Amba Bai Tampuratty, who, composed Parvati Swayamvaram, a work for the Tullal dance. As only a small boy, he filled the walls of his home with pictures of animals, acts and scenes from his daily life, which though irked the domestics, were noted by his uncle, Raja Raja Varma as the signs of a blossoming genius.

 ~OIL COLORS OF VARMA~

RAVI VARMA TAUGHT THE ART CULTURE:

MOHINI PAINTING BY RAVI VARMA:

Ravi Varma had been using the indigenous paints made from leaves, flowers, tree bark and soil which his uncle Raja Raja Varma prepared for him. His first set of oil paints was brought from Madras after noticing a newspaper advertisement. Excited and nervous, he handled the paints he had waited for a long time.

VIDEO'S ON VARMA'S PAINTING:

The Calendar-Art thus brought-forth by Ravi Varma has been the origin of lakhs of gaudy god-pictures by ultramodern litho presses for decades. Raja Ravi Varma died of diabetes on October 2, 1906, in his Kilimanoor Palace home overflowing with friends, relatives, dignitaries and the media. Yet, the rich heritage of the fragrance of his paintings continues to charm and influence the art of India. 

  THE LEGEND OF ART WORLD..