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' long-ears' or 'neighing aloud' ') [1] is a seven-headed flying horse, created during the churning of the ocean. It is considered the best of horses, as prototype and king of the horses. [1] Uchchaihshravas is often described as a vahana of Indra, but is also recorded to be the horse of Bali, the king of the asuras.
'Kala Ghoda signage' Kala Ghoda (IPA:Kāḷā Ghōḍālit. ' Black Horse ') is a crescent-shaped art district/neighborhood in Mumbai, India. [1] It hosts several of the city's heritage buildings including museums, art galleries and educational institutions like the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, the Jehangir Art Gallery, the National Gallery of Modern Art, and The Arts Trust ...
The paintings of Giuseppe Castiglione show the bodies of horses in full, their manes being of a different color from the body. [4] He represented them from different angles, [4] suggesting movement through the lifting of the limbs. [7] He also indicated a light source to attenuate the tints, and thus give the horses a volumetric effect. [4]
The image of mohini on one of the pillars in the mantapa (closed hall) of the Chennakeshava temple is an example of Chola art. [ 14 ] General life themes are portrayed on wall panels such as the way horses were reined, the type of stirrup used, the depiction of dancers, musicians, instrumentalists, and rows of animals such as lions and ...
The Ashta Bhairavas (Sanskrit: अष्टभैरवः, romanized: Aṣṭabhairavah, lit. 'eight Bhairavas') are the eight manifestations of the Hindu god Bhairava, [1] a ferocious form of Shiva.
This is from the auction catalogue description of an African wood figure: [8] There is extensive insect loss in the proper right leg, some at the proper right elbow, and at the fronts of both feet. There is a chip off the proper right breast, and the proper right leg was broken off and reglued. Describing an Indian sculpture: [9]
Rivera redrew the images for the prints himself and remained in New York after the MoMA exhibition to oversee their production. [6] That Rivera was urged to create these lithographs speaks to his popularity as a celebrated Mexican artist in the United States. [7] Zapata, the fifth of this series of five, is Rivera's best known and most-admired ...
The paintings Blue Horse I and Blue Horse II were also created in 1911. In all of the horse pictures of this time, Marc turns blue from an “appearance colour” to an “essential colour”. The colour blue stood for the male principle in his own colour theory. With the animal image he found a symbol for a “spiritualization of the world”.