Sunday Reading task :Visit to an Art Gallery :Ajanta Exhibition -Khodidas Parmar

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      Here is Hinaba Sarvaiya blog This blog is the part of my Sunday Reading task that is given by our Prof.Dilip Barad Sir. 

 This blog is very interesting because I sharing my experience Visit to Khodidas Parmar Art Gallery.      

The enlightenment of the Ajanta Painting Exhibition at Bhavnagar During the 26, sept. I have not able to join physically but lots of thanks to my friends she's helped and I visit exhibition of Ajanta Painting in the live mode and send the beautiful photos. I would like to share my experience. This exhibition open at morning to evening. Everyone was come there like kids, parents,friends, teachers,ect..open us.so many beautiful painting was there. There are many painting like Padmapani, Gautam Buddha, Apasara, Queen, Shyama, Rajkumari Annanta, Indra, God of Tathagat, Siddhartha so many beautiful and wonderful painting was there. Every people see the painting carefully and understand how to say painting ? his /her expression and sharing your idea on other.  Firstly arise the question in my mind. Who is Khodidas Parmar and where is the art gallery. Let's the brief introduction about Khodidas Parmar and Art Gallery.

Khodidas Parmar: - (1930-2004)

           Khodidas Parmar was born on July 31,1930 and was the only son of a poor Karadiya Rajput Family. He was named after the goddess Khodiyar as the family thought of him being a gift from the goddess afer many daughters. Though hailing from a poor family. His parents were detwrmined for him to get a good education. He did his M.A. with Gujrati and Sanskrit, learnt painting even as he studied and went on to. Become a guide to student doing doctoral research on folk literature for their Ph.D. He was trained in art by Guru Somalal Shah from 1948-1951 whom he met at the Alfred high school.

     Fascinated with traditional art, particularly the folk style of Gujarat, Parmar, spent his life last year's documenting and collection motifs for a book on the arts of the region of Kutch and Saurashtra. He also wrote and published several award winning books on the region like the folk Embroidery of Saurashtra, Gujarati folk tales collection and krishna legend, in Gujrati. A recipient of several awards, he has participated in several group shows and his works are a part of several permanent collections like the Museum of Modern Art and National art gallery, new Delhi, Parmar passed away in March 2004 in Bhavnagar.

Khodidas Parmar Art Gallery at Bhavanagar:-

        Kodidas Parmar Art gallery is one of the top and best destinations for family and friends in the field of art museum, Art gallery and art category in Bhavnagar. It is also known as Art museum, art gallery and art category and much more. Khodidas Parmar Art Gallery placed in Sardar Nagar, Bhavnagar, Gujarat 364001, and Khodidas Parmar Art Gallery took a good position in the art gallery category in Bhavnagar.

History of Ajanta Cave Painting:-

*  Total 30 caves .

 * Two type of panting : 

1. Mural painting:  a mural is any plece of artwork painted or apptied directly on a wall, ceilling or other permanent surfaces.

2.Fresco painting: method of painting water based pigments on freshly applied plaster usually on wall surfaces.

* Ajanta caves were caved in 4th century AD.

* The common themes of these painting Jataka tale.

* Jataka tales - Describe previous births of Gautam Buddha. 

* Colour used - Black, Brown, Deep Red, red ochre.

* Some connection with the art of gandhara also be noted. 

* Discovered by English officer doring a tiger hunt in 1819.

* The highly acurate  pictorial technique used in Ajanta and the method ofexecution makes these wall paintings unique in the World.

*Accorded UNESCO World Heritage site status in 1983 Century. The ancient name of site is untraceable today. Its current name is derived from a neighbouring village, the local pronunciation of which is Ajantha. It would be of interest to note, that Ajita is the colloquial name of Maitreya Buddha.

     

Copies of the painting: 

Art is the re- shaping reality of by man to represent and understandable way as a artist re creates  the world's around him.  It is shaped by how he sees it ,what is he believed in. In Indian artist did not attempted to depict only the material reality around him. He wish to share to complet experience of the movement. Not Just the photography presentation painted the real beauty reflection of the glory of the God.

The painting have deteriorated significantly since they were rediscovered and a number of 19th century copies and drawing are impotant for a complete understanding of the work. A number of attempts to Copy the Ajanta paintings began in the 19th century for European and japanese museums. Some of these works have later been lost in natual and fire disasters. 

     Now I merge some photos in real Ajanta cave paintings with Khodidas art gallery exhibition painting.

Cave 10 contains a supreme treasure that has only recently been identified : Fragment of the oldest surviving painting of the life of the Buddha and in image of frist sermon at Sarnath. Next to the latter lies a depiction of the legend of udayana a tale of two rival queen, one virtuous and one evil.  Whole paintings show the life of Buddha's.

(Padmapani)

This extraordinary mural painting Survives form early mediaeval india, preserved in the interior of the rock cut Buddhist monastery of Ajanta it provides the earliest visual evidence of elaborate crowns being worm as signifiers of both princely and divine status. The crowns depicted are the antecedents of those used in Buddhist ritual today by the vajracharya priests in Nepal.

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Thinking Activity-Ben jonson

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                            I am Hinaba Sarvaiya, a student of the department of English, Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University. This blog is the part of my Classroom activity that is given by our Prof. Dilip Barad sir. Let's discuss about the author :

"Life is a tragedy for those who feel,and a comedy for those who think"

                         -Horace Walpole.

INTRODUCTION:

                             Ben Jonson is the most commanding literary figure among the Elizabethan. For Twenty-five years he was the literary dictator of london. The chief of all the wits that gathered nightly at the old Devil Tavern. With his great Learning, his ability, and his 

Commanding position as poet Laureate, he set himself squarely against his contemporaries and the romantic tendency of the age. For two things he fought bravely;

(1) To restore the classic form of the drama.

(2) To Keep the stage from its downward course.

: LIFE OF BEN JONSON (1573-1637):

              Ben Jonson was born in 1573 in a poor family and his father dies a month before he was born. And his mother married Robert Brett's, bricklayer. But Jonson was admitted to Westminster School by an unknown person. After completing his education and he join his father bricklaying and then be join Royal Army.

HIS  CAREER OF THEATRE :-

                                 

           The he Secured place in theatre company under enterpreneurship of Phillip Henslowe . He wrote 19 play and 36 Masques. Jonson invented the anti-masque also known as the anti-masque , the false masque, and antic masque and produced the frist in 1609. 

             King James I provided Royal Patronage to Ben Jonson. James provided him a pension of 100 marsk yearly and Ben Jonson is considered as frist poet laureate of England.Ben Jonson was always been a controversial writer having short temper and volatile nature.

 HIS STYLE OF WRITING :-

                   Johnson's work is in strong contrast with that of Shakespeare and of the later Elizabethan dramatists. Alone he fought against the romantic tendency of the age, and to restore the classic standards. Thus the Whole action of his drama usually covers only a few hours, or a singal day. He never takes liberties with historical facts, as Shakespeare does, but is accurate to the smallest detail.

          

His drama abound in classical learning, are carefully and logically constructed and comedy of crowding each other as they do in Shakespeare and in life. In one respect his comedies are worthy of careful reading they are intensely realistic, presenting men ,and women of the te exactly as they were.

 -: HIS NOTABLE WORKS :-       

         

                     // COMEDIES//

  (1) 'Everyman In His Humour '(1598)

  (2)' Everyman Out Of Humour'(1599)

  (3)' Volpone Or Fox (1605)

   (4)'Alchemist and Epicoene Or The Silent woman . 

                       //Tragedies//

  1) Sejanus (1603)

  2) Catiline (1611).

       

       Let's discuss about   " Everyman in his Humour" great work written by Ben Jonson :

THE TERM HUMOUR :-

              The term 'humour' comes from the ancient Greek physicians . It is a medical term. As per the ancient medical systems, there are four major humours or elements in human body.

      

  1. BLOOD OR FIRE (heat)

  2. PHLEGM OR AIR (cold)

  3.CHOLER OR YELLOW BILE OR EARTH (dryness)

  4. MELONCHOLY OR BLACK BILE OR WATER (moisture).

 

        Each of these four fluids were associated with particular characteristics that were thought to influence a persons temperament, as well as their health.

EVERYMAN IN HIS HUMOUR :-

           Everyman  in his Humour, comic drama in five acts. That established the reputation of Ben Jonson, performed in London by the lord Chamberlain men in 1598 and revised sometime before it publication in the folio edition of 1616. The play belong  to the Subgenre of the Humour comedy in which each major character is dominated by an over-riding humor or obsession.

   

         In the prologue, the speaker announces that the play was written due to the popularity of the the theatre . The goal of playwright is to plase their audience. this play , the audience to a place far away, but will show a current time and place that will make people laugh.

            //  THEME//

  (IT IS A COMEDY OF HUMOUR)

 

       The character show different types of attitudes related to the four humor. Stephen is melancholic, Bobadil and Matthew are Choleric, Downright and Wellbred are aggressive, Edward and Brainworm suggest sanguine nature  While Justice Clement suggests phlegmatic Clam attitude required by a person at the position of making justice.

          Last point discuss about the death of Ben jonson :

      

         Ben Jonson  journeyed on foot to Scottland in 1618, and was appointed city chronologer to the city of london in 1628. The same year he possibly suffered a paralytic stoke. He died on 6 August 1637, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.

CONCLUSION :- 

   

                              Wind up my blog with described the topic in here, life of Jonson, his style of writing, his notable works and described the great comedy 'Everyman in his Humour'. Such comedies were character oriented and full of realism.

Thank you !!!.