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Mysore Painting 2007-12-28 11:14:12 The Context The city of Mysore presents an interesting case for analysing the history of a place determined by its geographical location (12°18′N, 76°39′E /12.3, 76.65), environmental resourcefulness and unique tradition of the past. This is no where in India more evident than in Mysore. Once you are there, you can smell a difference in the air saturated with the fragrance from the sandal woods. As you move along the streets, your eyes begin feasting on unique designs, manifest everywhere—on the old buildings, on the very clothes the inhabitants put on, on the ordinary things of life. All these seem to be fitting with the natural environment there. The purpose of this piece of writing is, however, not to cover all aspect of life there, but to focus on the tradition of Mysore paint Read more:Painting
Alpona in Bengali Culture 2007-12-06 08:56:19 Ever since the Bengal Renaissance that had passed over Bengal in the 19th century, Bengal has remained in special focus of the orientalists and cultural historians for its rich cultural heritage. This heritage gets best reflected in the festive occasions, which may be called the ways by which the people live. So, the term ‘culture’, in the anthropological sense, meaning ways of life, is perhaps nowhere clearer than in Bengali life. Again, as Clifford Geertz observes, a particular culture feeds on rituals, festive occasions and other activities as symbolic overtures to the belief-systems and ethos, which the people must conform to. It may be said that the conformities in their totality are festivals. A very cursory look can find that the occasions are ornamented with regional crafts an
The Art of Terracotta in West Bengal 2007-12-06 08:39:30 Let us now, when we are flying on the internet from one space to another, imagine a simple situation that would happen in somewhere on earth somewhere in the past of human history. A group of people caught a prey and then put it on fire on the soft and wet bank of a river and fed on it. As the fire and the hunger subsided, the soft earth turned into reddish hard shape. The group thus somehow accidentally discovered the art of baked pottery. The art of terracotta came later when human beings could easily give shape to many living beings and inanimate objects. It may be surmised whether this art facilitated the primitive people’s performance of ritual ceremony of mock-hunting in the superstition of getting plenty. Whatever the facts might have been, the archaeological finds all over the Read more:Bengal
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