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Radha and Krishna on Swing: Kerala Folk Style - Kerala Mural
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About Radha And Krishna On Swing: Kerala Folk Style
Dimensions: 27 inch X 36 inch South Indian Paintings: Tanjore & Mysore | Gold Leaf PaintingsKerala MuralThis painting, oil on canvas, a refined version of art style the people of Kerala used for centuries for decorating the façades of their huts and their fishing boats, represents Krishna and Radha enjoying swinging. A contrast to the dark sky often covered with deep impenetrable clouds and to the ocean’s awful expanse of the blue the fire-like glowing orange was this folk art’s basic texture, and also the people’s need. The body colour, the colour of costumes or that of the background orange was its essential component. They inhaled its warmth and it revitalized their energies. The cloud-covered sky or the ocean’s waves gave them the idea of colour shading but the colours that they were acquainted with were the basic ones : blue, green, yellow, black, white … Besides the curling clouds the ocean’s waves, torrential or gentle, ferns growing around the shores, or those bursting out of waters, gave them their forms for conceiving their sky or space beyond the earth, their plants, trees and the entire nature. Hence, when seeking to adorn things around them these were their forms, and these, their colours.This people’s idiom which this canvas seeks to reproduce reached the apex – its refined version, in the murals at Mattancherry palace, Kochi, sometime in early sixteenth century. An earth covered with vegetation, a sky covered with clouds, and an ocean covered with waves, conditioned the Kerala artist’s vision of his canvas. Whether the Mattancherry palace murals or this contemporary piece, the artist preferred covering every inch of space with one form or the other. As the tradition was inherited from the grass-root v
