Height: 33.00 in
Width: 24.00 in
Oil Paintings: Indian Oil Paintings & Oil On Canvas @ExoticIndiaArt
Oil on Canvas
This painting, a portrait of two women, one, a young girl, and other, one of the advanced age, perhaps a daughter and her mother, is a brilliant attempt at discovering in the simplest forms and few colours a theme a mother dressing up her daughter, as also the minds of the two figures, a young girls apprehensions, indecision, fears and perhaps hopes in regard to future she is going to face, and a mothers anxiety to know what is going on in her daughters mind, as also her worries and fears. Visually it appears to be a simple theme: a woman of advanced age combing a young womans hair. As suggest the jewellery box and the necklace lying along other articles, a small looking-glass and an oil-bottle among others, she is dressing her up for some formal occasion, perhaps meeting her husband after a period of tension and discord. With deep concern reflecting on her face the elderly woman is in all probabilities her mother, or one with mother-like concern, though the girls social status, a middle or upper middle class family, hardly supports the contention that the family could have a regular maid for the purpose. The painting, rendered pursuing late nineteenth century Bazaar art style, especially its idiom as practised in Bengal, is a brilliant example of discovering a theme in portraits of the represented figures, again one of the main characteristics of this late nineteenth century art style finding its best accomplishment in the paintings of Raja Ravi Verma who was primarily responsible for giving to portraits also thematic dimensions. This painting primarily portrays two women in their fullness, their appearance, social status, customs, costume-styles, mutual relationship, and even theology, as also each ones mind, its apprehensions and fears, and its anxiety and concern, something th
Mother and Daughter - Oil on Canvas
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