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Aerial Ganesh
The mystic musician
€90.00
In this small brass Bastar statuette from South India, the artist has chosen to represent Ganesh as a musician who, like Shiva, gives rhythm to the universe. More...
Height : 4,76'
Weight : 0.48 lbs
Tribal Art
Lost wax casting - copper alloy
Origin : Chattisgarh - India
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Description
Tribal Indian art
The tribes, practicing the Dokra art, originate from the Bastar region, in South India (today located in the state of Chattisgarh), they emigrated several centuries before and settled almost everywhere in India from North to South. Most have kept their tradition (culinary art, clothing, festivals) and their animist religion.
Dokra art
This traditional and artisanal art has not changed for millennia (more than 4000 years) and the technique used is always that of lost wax: a coarse clay model is made and then covered with wax by the artist who will give it its final form with its details. The whole is again covered with a clay mixture and then heated in an open hearth where a copper alloy will be poured. Visit my blog.
Objects produced by Dokra artists can be of a usual nature: cup, candle holder ... musical instruments (brass), or artistic such as jewelry, animals: horses, elephants, turtles ..., statues of men and women representing scenes of daily life and Hindu deities adopted by the tribes: Ganesh, Lakshmi, ...
Posture Sitting, threadlike, Ganesh plays celestial music. The expression of concentration is reinforced by the eyebrows which meet and form a, very marked, V.
This representation of Ganesh is very special: his belly which is usually always large, symbolizing anchoring, presence, stability is completely flat here! It is one of the tribal characteristics to free oneself from the codes: his ears although wide and round are not omnipresent, it is the length of the trunk which wraps the drum, gives Ganesh an astonishing airy appearance.
Headgear Crown in tiara shape: Kiritamukuta - symbol of royalty. The third eye halo his forehead: it symbolizes vision, knowledge.
Please note: in tribal art, Ganesh is not always decked out in his horse: the rat.
In this statue, due to its small size, there is no clay-based molding: the statuette is worked directly on a wax base which is sculpted very finely by the artist.
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Customer reviews
« Fast shipping and very well packaged. Thank you.
I am very satisfied with this murti with neat details and all imbued with spirituality. » (Gérard M)
« Very happy with the gift I gave myself with the statuette of Shiva Nataraj representing the cosmic wheel with his multiple arms.
Bertrand Bellaize, through his relationship with Indian artisans, puts us in direct contact with tribal art, far from the international trade organized for mass production.
I can savor every day the purity of the delicate gestures of the Shiva and thus open myself to the surge of spirituality that this symbolism offers me. » (Pierre J)
« I, who often did not know what to give as a gift, here is the 3rd statue of Ganesh Art India that I offer in a year, this time a bust of a Bastar woman with an "inaccessible gaze". With joy in many facets: seeing the delighted expression of the person to whom I am giving the gift, allowing a gifted but unknown Indian artist to earn a little better a living and living a simple and perfect transaction with Ganesh Art India. Bertrand Bellaize is a reliable and careful person and his statues are even more beautiful in real life than in photos. » (Eric D.)