#Indian art

[weepingwidar]

Rithika Pandey (Indian, 1998) - The Story Where I Loved You from a Unique Standpoint (2020)

[1five1two]

Kalighat painting of Vishnu as Matsya. Calcutta. c. 1860.

[jareckiworld]

Bharti Kher — Smackdown Vs Raw (bindis on aluminium panel, 2006)

[arthistoryanimalia]

#WatercolorWednesday:

Portrait of a Ladakhi Mountain Goat [Changthangi*]

India, Mughal dynasty, c.1601-25

Opaque watercolor, ink, gold on paper

37.9 × 25.6 cm (14 7/8 × 10 1/8 in.)

The Art Institute of Chicago 1919.944: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/76868/portrait-of-a-ladakhi-mountain-goat

🆔 “The Changthangi [aka Changpa, Ladakh Pashmina, Kashmiri] is a breed of cashmere goat native to the high plateaus of Ladakh in northern India. It is closely associated with the nomadic Changpa people of the Changthang plateau….The intense cold of the region causes the goats to grow a thick undercoat, which is harvested to produce the fine pashmina grade of cashmere.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changtha

#IndianArt #SouthAsianArt

[smithsonianlibraries]

An ornate sword and scabbard with horse handle from Thomas Hendley's Memorials of the Jeypore Exhibition 1883 (1883). Full text here.

[thunderstruck9]

Maqbool Fida Husain (Indian, 1913-2011), Untitled (Five Horses), 1982. Acrylic, oil and felt pen on canvas, 48 x 72 1/16in.

[memories-of-ancients]

Dancing Ganesh, India, 9th-10th century AD

from The Walters Art Museum

[frostedmagnolias]

Mohini on a Swing (1894)

by Raja Ravi Varma (Indian, 1848-1906)

[aahanna]

These desi home aesthetics are looking soo mesmerising 🥹🤌🏼

[the-cricket-chirps]

Lotus-Headed Fertility Goddess Lajja Gauri

India (Madhya Pradesh)

ca. 6th century

Metropolitan Museum of Art

[ahalya25]

Raja Ravi Varma paintings

[weepingwidar]

Rithika Pandey (Indian, 1998) - Return of the Daylight Savers (2024)

[1five1two]

Hoysaleshwara Temple, Halebidu, India.

[jareckiworld]

Bharti Kher — Formless Connections (bindis on painted board, 2016)

[arthistoryanimalia]

#InternationalVultureAwarenessDay:

Ustād Manṣūr (India, active 1590-1624)

Red-Headed Vulture and Long-Billed Vulture, c. 1615–20

Mughal, Jahāngīr Studio

folio from the Shah Jahan Album

ink, opaque watercolor, & gold on paper

39.1 x 25.6 cm (15 3/8 x 10 1/16 in)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 55.121.10.12 verso: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/451260

[smithsonianlibraries]

A paper stencil of "Frisky cows" from Ananda K. Coomaraswamy's Indian drawings : 2d series, chiefly Rājput (1912).

Full text here.