Makes You Dance To Her Tune

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Item Code: ME17
Specifications:
Miniature Painting on Paper
Dimensions 6.5" x 9.5"
Handmade
Handmade
Free delivery
Free delivery
Fully insured
Fully insured
100% Made in India
100% Made in India
Fair trade
Fair trade
The centrality of the musician and dancer to Indian society is constantly reiterated through texts, inscriptions on temples, stone sculptures and wooden carvings, as well as archaeological evidences. Bharata in his seminal 'Natyashastra' stated that it was the responsibility of dancers and musicians to evoke Rasa, the aesthetic emotion embodied in a work of art.

This painting portrays a Kathak dancer in profile. Kathak is a North Indian dance style whose origins are obscure. However, this dance form was shaped in the Mughal Period by Muslim influence and it soon became a secular entertainment of no religious or spiritual significance. Here the dancer wears a tight pajama, a choli and a diaphanous odhini that accentuates the whirling and spinning of Kathak as well as her shapely figure. She is adorned with jewelry from head to toe. The palms of her hands and bare feet are dyed in henna. In the Kathak tradition, as splendidly exemplified in this painting, the emphasis is on fast footwork and lively turns and the movement of this dancer is frozen in the frame. Her hair is tied in a knot and the rest flows down her back, competing with the flow of her odhini.

There is lyricism and rhythm in the painting, speed of lightening in her movement, grace in her limbs and dignity in expression. The artist has wisely used contrasting colors of garments and those in the twin border encompassing the painting that reiterates that music and dance permeate every aspect of Indian life in a spontaneous and completely natural way.

The description by Kiranjyot

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