“Encounter on the way back from the forest” – Rasa Masterpiece
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Rasa Masterpiece “Encounter on the way back from the forest”- by Mumbiram
A Flagship of Rasa Renaissance
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90 x 120 cm
Collector’s Item
High Quality Canvas Print
individually signed by Mumbiram
Description
Collector’s Item Canvas Print of Original Charcoal Masterpiece: “Encounter on the way back from the forest” by Mumbiram
Simple, graceful charcoal lines depict the Rasa of this soulful situation. Mumbiram’s paintings show the folk-people of India for the first time in the sublime context of high-spirituality and neo-modern aphrodisia.
90 x 120 cm
High Quality Canvas Print
individually signed by Mumbiram
This is a collector’s item and you will get your Rasa Masterpiece individually signed by Artist Mumbiram.
Rasa Appreciation of original charcoal masterpiece
“Encounter on the way back from the forest”
(Charcoal on cotton-rag hand-made paper, Pune 1985, Mumbiram)
Living in his studio in downtown Pune or cohabiting with the tribals and gypsies on the hills of coastal wilderness, the artist was making paintings that show the folk-people of India for the first time in the sublime context of high-spirituality and neo-modern aphrodisia.
The remote hills of India are inhabited by tribals that subsist on wild grains, fruit, berries, herbs, honey as well as fodder and firewood that is gathered from the forest. At the end of the day men and women come home with heavy loads much to the happiness of those waiting for them all day.
Mumbiram is immensely attracted to that life close to nature. He experiences echoes of the pastoral scenes of Krishna’s boyhood leelas in the forests of Vrindavan. Of course young boys and girls meet in the forest and there are all sorts of loving exchanges that take place. It is unfortunate that the civilized world of city people misses out on the very beautiful and touching human side of the tribals that live a life that is closer to the life of adolescent Krishna that is considered to be the ultimate object of meditation by the revered scriptures of India.
It has been said that in Mumbiram’s Rasa Art one hears reverberations of nectarean melodies of the ancient scriptures of India. Certainly his paintings are far more than just illustrations of existing texts.
The young boy is about to rush to his beloved.
The people appearing in Mumbiram’s paintings are all real people that were sharing life experiences with this passionate artist. These life experiences had a déjà vu quality. They reminded one of situations and episodes from the classics. What is more amazing is that the persons appearing in the paintings exude the same unabashed innocent passion that the great Sanskrit Rasa Classics arouse.
We have all seen Krishna-Leela depicted in Pahari or Mughal miniatures. It is all stylized. The Gopis all look alike. They all have the same fish eyes, the same straight noses that emanate from the same curved foreheads. We can only relate to them as distant mythological figures.
The damsel is pretending to ignore the advancing youngster but the expression on her face leaves much to the imagination of the viewer.
Mumbiram’s pictures show individuals. Women that could be the girl next door or movie actresses or rag-pickers or bird-catchers or whatever. They bring the eternal causeless sporting of the divine with the living entities, Leela, to today’s light. They breathe life-air into scriptural visions. Mumbiram’s treatment is free from painterly affectations of brushstrokes and shadows. The lines are sweet and simple, nearly minimal. Such leela ……!
One can readily see that Mumbiram’s contemporary renderings are based on the artist’s own life experiences but they appear inspired by the same ideal and paradigm that is evoked by the verses from Tenth Canto of Shrimad Bhagavatam:
चलसि यद् व्रजाच्चारयन् पशून् नलिनसुंदरं नाथ ते पदम्
शिलतृणाङ्कुरैः सीदतीति नः कलिलतां मनः कान्त गच्छति ॥१०.३१.११॥
दिनपरिक्षये नीलकुंतलैर्वनरुहाननं बिभ्रदावृतम्
घनरजस्वलं दर्शयन् मुहुर्मनसि नः स्मरं वीर यच्छसि ॥१०.३१.१२॥
“Your feet are beautiful like the very rare Blue Lotus. With those beautiful feet you go behind the cattle. With those beautiful feet you walk the forest grounds that are full of pebbles and sticks. The thought of even the slightest injury to your feet is excruciatingly unbearable to our minds.
We remember you most fondly, when at the end of the day you return home with the cows and the boys. Your curly bluish black beautiful locks are bouncing around your dust-covered face. It reminds us of the pristine beauty of wild lotuses. Every time we see that dust-covered brave beautiful face or even remember it, our mind is filled with amorous passions.”
(ll11-12 ll Gopi Geetam, Five Songs of Rasa, Mumbiram )
