Ep 244: The Multitudes of Our Maharajahs
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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What's the Effect of Your Appreciation of Rajara Wiverma's Paintings?
Rajara wiverma's work was influenced by european artists. He got so much patronage there that he was freely allowed to travel and show his paintings. The sesagiraw also supports him, and most importantly, matora mathara wosa divan. If you make prints of the paintings, they can go across to all households in india. And that sets him off on an idea which is larger than art itself. It's sort of a nationalist tickning. We now look at a ravyovna painting, sing o, so quaint and so old fashioned. At that time, this is basically the fashionable way of draping the sari
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