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Raja Ravi Varma (1848-1906) was among the first Indian painters to successfully adapt academic realism to the visual interpretation of Indian mythology and adopt Western painting techniques of portraiture. His genre of paintings, which eventually led to chromolithographs (Oleographs), has maintained a lasting effect on the Indian sensibility, making him the best-known classical painter of modern times.This book is an account of Ravi Varma's traditional ...
Ramachandran - Icons of the Raw Earth was inspired by Ramachandran's magnificent bronze sculptures. These works are a continuation of the paintings that he started to work on in 1995, just a while after his last major exhibition and the publication of Ramachandran, Art of the Muralist by Rupika Chawla. There is a prologue by Ramachandran with a text by the author divided into two parts. The first half The Lotus Pond examines Ramachandran's imagery which is based ...