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A fascinating journey of spiritual art in India


Nikhil Inamdar

BBC News, London

Painting the Painting of the Painting of the Gaja-Lakṣmī (Gajalakshmi) depicting the Painting of the Gajache Museum; The image of the goddess sitting on the fertility and good fortune is sitting on both sides with an elephant (Gajah in Sanskrit). They have small wings, the details that the elephant remembers the myth who walk through the sky. Board of Board of British Museum

Gaomeche paper papers represent the goddess Lakṣmi

A new exhibition at the British Great Museum in London shows the rich trip to India’s spiritual art. Ancient India Title: Life tradition includes 189 countries with 189 countries.

Visitors can explore everything from 2,000 years of sculptures and paintings, revealing the amazing evolution of the spiritual expression of India.

The art of subcontinence in India had a profound transformation between 200bc and AD600. God, goddess, the highest preachers and the bright souls of the three religions represented – Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism – they returned to a more symbolic way to achieve human forms from symbolic.

While three religions shared common cultural roots, they worshiped ancient nature, such as potent snakes or peafowl feisty, in this religious iconographic change in this religious iconographic.

“Today we can’t imagine the veneration of spirits or gods or gods of godless spirits or gods, for what this transition makes this transition so interesting,” says the curator of Sushma Jansari exhibition.

The exhibition examines the monitoring and change of sacred art of India through five sections, and the subsections and faith provided to each of the three religions are extended to other parts of the world like Cambodia and China.

The Board of Board of Britain is striking the sandstone panel of two sides, figurative evolution of the evolution of the Buddha. Board of Board of British Museum

This panel – Amaravati from the sacred hermitage (southeast of India) – was a part of the circular base of a stupa

In Bimaran Casket of the British Museum, 1. About the 19th century ad. The Buddha is right hand, raised in peace and is packed with Indra (right) and Brahma (left).Board of Board of British Museum

This gold religion about the 1st century can represent the first image of the Buddha showing as a man

The center of the Buddhist exhibition section – The sandstone panel of two sides showing the evolution of the Buddha is striking, perhaps to represent this excellent transition.

Carved around AD250, Buddha reveals the form of man with intricate intricate intrategies, among other things 50-1bc, depicting empty throne and imprints through a tree.

Sculpture – Amaravatic hermitage from the sacred hermitage (southeast of India) – It was a part of the decoration of a circular base of a stupa, or a Buddhist monument.

This transformation has been quite extraordinary for a single “single sanctuary panel” panel, “says Mrs. Jesari.

Copper goddess of the British Museum, India, about 1-100. Board of Board of British Museum

Image Yakshi – It is a spirit of nature, and the Hindu god, in the artistic moment in the 1st century.

In the Hindi section, another bronze state reflects the evolution of visual images through the representation of goddesses.

The image resembles a yakshi – a powerful primordial spirit “in abundance and fertility, as well as death and disease,” known through its flower tool, jewelry and full figure.

However, he has several sacred objects, which were characterized by Hindu female gods later for centuries.

Board of Board of Britain Museum Tirthanka Halo, sandstone, India, 200-300 announcement. Board of Board of British Museum

Jain religious art is based on representations of 24 illustrated teachers called Tirthankaras. This sandstone is between AD200-300

On the screen, examples of God religious art are fascinating, largely focus on 24 pillars in Tirthankaras.

Such representations were found in a pink pink sandstone for about 2,000 years and began through the sacred symbol of the endless knot in the chest.

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University Yaksha is wonderful, a powerful spirit borrowed from the Museum in Oxford Ashmolean. Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

This show has 40 pieces from 37 museums and libraries around the world, including this head of a duration of Yaksha, including a strong spirit of spirits

The sculptures commissioned through these religions were often made in common workshops in the ancient city of Math, which explains why the marked similarities between them are.

Unlike other shows of South Asia, it is a special exhibition “First of all religious traditions, as it separates Mrs. Jansari.

It also pays attention to the origin of each object, with short explanations about the object trip, with many hands, museums and so on.

The show highlights complicated details, such as many Buddhist arts donors were women. But it fails why it happened to carry out the transformation of the visual language.

“It remains a million dollar question. They continue to argue in studies,” says Mrs. Jesari. “Unless we have further passing evidence, we will not know. The exceptional figurative art tells us the idea of ​​representing the divine human man.”

The Board of Trustees of the British Museum shows one of the sections of the exhibition, with visitors who see the viewers. Board of Board of British Museum

The exhibition wants to give visitors to multi-sensor experience, smells, fabric, natural sounds and bright colors

The show is a multi-sensory experience – smells, fabric, nature sounds and bright colors, bright colors designed to recall the atmospheric of Buddhist and Jain hermitage.

“It happens so much in these sacred spaces, and yet there is its own quiet and peace of mind. I wanted to get that, he collaborated with Mrs. Jesari, various designers, artists and community partners.

British Museum Silk watercolor Buddha, China, about AD701-750.Board of Board of British Museum

K. From October 3, Buddhist’s missionaries took their devotional art beyond India to countries like China

Scoring screens are screens that show short films to practice the worshipers of each British religion. These emphasize that this is not “ancient art, but a lively tradition”, for millions of people in the UK and other parts of the world, beyond modern Indian limits.

The exhibition comes from the southern collection of the British Museum, 37 private lenders and UK, Europe and India.

Ancient India: Survivor traditions are currently exhibiting at the British Museum of London from 22 May to October 19.

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