by Fattu. Bhagwat Puran Series
Kangra School. Mid-18th century AD.
Lord Brahma wanted to test Krishna's divinity. One day He hid all the Gopas and thr cows in a cave. Krishna could not find them. By the evening he had to return to Vrindavan with them. Unable to locate them, he sat and created their images from mud, breathed life into these dolls and took them back to Vrindavan at dusk.
Fattu shows three Gopas and a few cows inside a cave. Lord Brahma flies of on his vehicle. Although his vehicle is the swan, here we see Him flying on a crane. Swans were unknown to the Pahari painters.
This is one of the most beautiful landscape painting of the Kangra School. The colors, the beige, the pinks, the oranges, the different shades of green and blue resonate throughout the painting. The linear quality of the trees, the grass, the peacocks, gives the painting a poetical effect.
Difficulties are not created just by those who are around us; it can be created by divinity too. According to the Sufis, Allah tests our soul and our devotion by making our lives difficult. But like Krishna we have to think out of the box in order to solve our problems. Our abilities prove the divine in us.
Fattu shows three Gopas and a few cows inside a cave. Lord Brahma flies of on his vehicle. Although his vehicle is the swan, here we see Him flying on a crane. Swans were unknown to the Pahari painters.
This is one of the most beautiful landscape painting of the Kangra School. The colors, the beige, the pinks, the oranges, the different shades of green and blue resonate throughout the painting. The linear quality of the trees, the grass, the peacocks, gives the painting a poetical effect.
Difficulties are not created just by those who are around us; it can be created by divinity too. According to the Sufis, Allah tests our soul and our devotion by making our lives difficult. But like Krishna we have to think out of the box in order to solve our problems. Our abilities prove the divine in us.
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