“Worshipper at the Ganga in Varanasi” – Rasa Masterpiece
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Rasa Masterpiece “Worshipper at the Ganga in Varanasi” by Mumbiram
A Flagship of Rasa Renaissance
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70 x 100 cm
Collector’s Item
High Quality Canvas Print
individually signed by Mumbiram
Description
Collector’s Item Canvas Print of Original Masterpiece “Worshipper at the Ganga in Varanasi” by Mumbiram
Most visions of Varanasi include the ghats and the temples along the Ganga. The vision presented by Mumbiram is personal and intimate. We see a maiden who has come to the river to do her daily worship.
70 x 100 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 masterpiece “Worshipper at the Ganga in Varanasi” by Mumbiram
“Worshipper at the Ganga in Varanasi”
(Watercolour, 1993, Mumbiram)
Most visions of Varanasi include the ghats and the temples along the Ganga. Here we see neither the temples nor the ghats. We see the orange waters of the flooded ganga. Only a few Shiva-lingas are seen sticking out from the water. This is how Ganga is seen in the middle of the month of Bhadrapad, about September, when the monsoon is over but the floods have yet to subside. During other months of the year, the morning scene at the Ganga is one of crowds of bathers standing in the shallow waters at the ghats. The river itself is full of fishermen’s boats that are carrying western tourists with their extra-long zoom lenses to capture close-ups of the bathers.
The vision presented by Mumbiram is personal and intimate. We see a maiden who has come to the river to do her daily worship. Traditionally young maidens pray to Lord Shiva, or to his consort Katyayani, who are known to grant a girl’s wish to have the husband of her choice. The young woman we see here has an innocent face of a young girl. The round shape of her head suggests baby fat. Her big clear eyes are steady, not fickle. Her slightly turned up round nostrils and small shapely ears look youthful. The small diamond nose-stud and the round ruby ear-stud reinforce that impression. But that could be deceptive. The red kumkum crescent on the forehead and the yellow turmeric dot below it, along with the black-and-gold beads in one of the necklaces round her neck suggest married status. Her full round bosom and the shape of her belly-button suggest she has already earned the epithet of motherhood.
