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Sackler Museum. "Buddhist Art: The Later Tradition," through Jan. 23. "From India's Hills and Plains: Rajput Paintings from the Punjab and Rajasthan," through Oct. 31. "Rothko's Harvard Murals," through...
Poignant, Picturesque and Berserk: Northern Indian Paintings and Objects of the 17th through 19th Centuries. Through Oct. 4. More than 25 paintings, drawings and objects from the Mughai and Rajput courts and from British India. Varying from the nightmarish to the comical and from the serious to the satirical, the show highlights the unusual in Indian...
...Mathura. There were ferocious bronze twelve-armed Kashmirian deities, smiling eastern Indian Krishnas and serene Nepalese Buddhas, to say nothing of inlaid daggers and textiles woven with iridescent beetle wings. Yet to many scholars, the most delightful items were the exquisite 16th-to-19th century manuscript paintings from the Rajput and Mogul civilizations of western and central India. These, in more than 70 sprightly miniatures, detailed stories of the gods as well as princely revels and the courtly chase...
...evoke this fusion of identity with the timeless, regenerate Self. It tries to break down the distinction between the temporal, individual identity of the viewer and the identity of the subject to be contemplated. Accordingly, time-space has a peculiar irrelevance in most Indian masterpieces. In the 18th century Rajput miniature of Krsna and Radha at a riverbank (fig. 1) the artist describes movement as a concrete quality which defines the objects rather than as an activity which the objects engage in. He abstracts a motion into a frozen form; the movement of the swirling water, for example, is captured...
Most Indian art is religious in nature, but even the exceptions (the most noticeable are the Rajput miniatures) are intimately bound up in the philosophical and religious traditions. Unlike Christian art, which exemplifies a didactic theme, Hindu and Buddhist art attempts to directly trigger a religious experience...