ARTHIST 1A03 Lecture : art hist oct 10.docx
7 Feb 2013
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Krishna and the gopis, from the gita govinda, rajasthan, india. Krishna blue figure; attached to vishnu; human incarnation of god; coming to hang with beautiful women; have relationship with a human female. Eye-catching bits painted last that sticks up a little. Rata is in a blue background indicating that she was jealous because krishna was hanging out with a bunch of females. Symbolic convention: the stylized hat that krishna wore. In the 1800s, paintings tends to be more naturalistic. Pigments for paints from vegetables and minerals (and probably insects called kermes) Paper made from cotton and jute fibres, pulped, mixed with water dried on woven mat, then burnished. Sketches made with little holes, colour painted over stencil to make outlines of dots. Thin wash of chalk-based paint to seal it. Outlines filled in with thick solid colour. Painting burnished face down on marble to polish pigments so they shine. Some pigments: blue - lapus lazuli, green: malachite, red: kermes(insect)
