Sculptures of India

A lot of the information about Indian sculptures  has already been explained in class. The appearence stays pretty much the same with the elongated eyes, long fingers, exaggerated curves, high eyebrows, clingy clothes, necklaces,bangles, the movement in the shape of the pose, and the multiple arms in Hindus work. Sculptures of India were created mostly for religious reasons. They are covering the temples for anyone to visit and worship. The Hindus and the Buddhist are the main religions that influenced the art. The materials that India used were stone;like sand stone, metal, Ivory, and wood. The sculptors usually did not sign their names and take credit for their work, but in temples of Hoysala several artist signed their names almost like competing with one another. A sculptor would normally not only carve stone but also in ivory, wood, know how to cast bronze and to paint and design buildings. Some of the statues, if you would look at them face to face they might appear that the perspective is off but that is becuase the carvings on the temples were made to be looked up at and so the sculptor did that on purpose.

 Jain Temple  you can see movement in the limbs like and demension of the 3D quality.

 

In Khajuraho there are three large temples, each one has a scene of life sized statues involving a polyamorous sex dipiction. Many people think it is vulgar.Others have theories to the meanings of them. It might be shiva and his wife or many wifes, could be to display how common court life was like for the wealthy people, or it could have been just a visual expression displaying the ordered hierarchy or humans needs. In their religion they believed everything is connected and it involves everything. So perhaps the worshippers do not view it in a perverse way or thinking its vulgar they just accept it as part of life.

I found one video that shows a little bit of several artists working on pieces similiar to the art style we are studying.

Stone sculpting

 

Works Cited

Mason,Darrielle. "Images of Integration:The temples of India and their Erotic Scupltures" Sculpture Review 53.4(2004):26-35. Art Full Text(H.W. Wilson). Web 26 Sept. 2012

Pratapaditya, Pal Tindian Sculpture, Volume 2. Museum Associates. (1988).Print.