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Mythologies of the Artist in Modern India: Cinema, Melodrama and Ravi Varma
Get PDFAlthough the Indian artist Ravi Varma (1948-1906) was much celebrated during his lifetime, and not quite forgotten after his death in 1906, in the last decade there has been a true revival of interest in his life and work. In 2008 Ketan Mehta directed a Hindi film Rang Rasiya (Colours of Passion) based on the life of the celebrated Indian painter.1 Another fictionalized biographical sketch of the artist, this time in book form, The Painter: A Life of Ravi Varma by Deepanjana Pal, followed in 2009 and was directed towards a broad audience. In 2010 a more scholarly treatment of Varma’s life and work was published under the title Raja Ravi Varma: Painter of Colonial India; it was written by Rupika Chawla, who had curated a major retrospective of the artist in 1993 at the National Museum in Delhi. This exhibition had provided a major impetus for the reconsideration of the artist’s work in the annals of modern Indian art. A second film on his life and work in Malayalam followed in 2010; entitled Makaramanju (The Mist of Capricorn) and directed by Lenin Rajendran it was then dubbed in Tamil as Apsaras (2011). 2013 marked the arrival of an English translation of a romantic Marathi biography (Raja Ravi Varma, 2013) by the writer Ranjit Desai. It was this publication that served as the source of both the films produced on Ravi Varma
Private Lives and Interior Spaces: Raja Ravi Varma\u27s Scholar Paintings
No full textBetween 1900 and 1904, the celebrated Indian academic painter Raja Ravi Varma painted two depictions of men reading (plate 1 and plate 2). The works are unusual, so much so, as to be quite unrecognizable from the mythological paintings and princely portraits that earned Ravi Varma his reputation with patrons and clients. Ravi Varma was best known for his paintings of lovelorn women gazing comely at the viewer and although men had featured in several commissioned portraits they were rarely presented as idealised figures. His sketchbooks feature several examples of men in everyday scenes, so it is evident that he experimented with the idea but very few seem to have made the transition to a final painting. The two small paintings are not strictly portraits in the sense that there is no information on them being commissioned, nor do they present particular, distinctive individuals but rather represent characters within environments. They are, more properly, genre paintings that portray the subjects within scenes of contemporary life. At least two other paintings of men exist from the same period, The Retired Soldier (1902) and The Miser (1901) both of which are largely anthropological in nature. In the scholar paintings however, Ravi Varma attempts to go beyond the dominant paradigms of anthropological portraiture or studio portraits of the period in exploring the subjective potential of the Indian man in his private universe, a characterization that is explored with much empathy and sensitivity and throws light on the idealised male self in turn of the century Kerala
Exploring complexity-entropy, eye-tracking, experience, creativity, familiarity, and emotional responses to 40 paintings of Raja Ravi Varma – father of Indian modern art
No full textThis study used multi-faceted behavioural and quantitative experimental measures to explore observations of paintings of celebrated 19th-century Indian painter Raja Ravi Varma, widely accepted as the father of Indian modern art. The study tried to trace the different aspects of a subject’s emotional and perceptual involvement with his work of art using the emotion classification system in Indian aesthetics based on the Rasa theory. Rigorous analysis was performed to investigate seven hypotheses on art perception and emotion with 40 Ravi Varma paintings featuring 15 different subjects. We looked at various factors like the complexity and entropy of composition, perception based on eye-tracking, art-experience, creativity, familiarity, and emotional reactions. The human eye-tracking data was compared with heatmaps generated through image analysis software. The research provides crucial information about the complex nature of aesthetic experiences and highlights certain limitations of current empirical aesthetics in decoding the subjective experience of art
From European fantasy to an Indian national icon. Images of women in the art of Ravi Varma
Get PDFRavi Varma (1848–1906) was an artist who has had a huge impact on Indian art. Criticised by some, adored by most in India and considered the precursor of modern art, he is the indisputable father of popular aesthetics in India. First of all, conscious, systematic Europeanisation in conjunction with the creation of modern mythological iconography and representations of women secured him a permanent place in the history of art. No artist before him could so creatively exploit new opportunities that opened wider relations with European art. The magnitude of Varma’s art lied in the fact that he did not copy European paintings, but adapted them to suit the needs of academic painting. The Indian woman ideal created by him is to this day the most widespread standard of beauty, especially in popular art. His construct of femininity has become the ideal for Indian women, goddesses and even embodies the nation in the form of Mother India (Bharat Mata).Ravi Varma (1848–1906) był artystą, który wywarł ogromny wpływ na sztukę indyjską; uważany jest za prekursora sztuki nowoczesnej oraz twórcę estetyki popularnej w Indiach. Przede wszystkim świadoma, systematyczna europeizacja w połączeniu ze stworzeniem współczesnej ikonografii mitologicznej oraz przedstawień kobiet zapewniła mu trwałe miejsce w historii sztuki. Żaden artysta przed nim nie potrafił tak twórczo wyzyskać nowych możliwości, które otworzył szeroki kontakt ze sztuką europejską. Wielkość Varmy polegała bowiem nie na kopiowaniu, ale dostosowywaniu do własnych potrzeb malarstwa akademickiego. Stworzony przez niego ideał kobiety indyjskiej do dziś stanowi najbardziej rozpowszechniony standard urody, szczególnie we wszechobecnej sztuce popularnej. Jego kobieta stała się idealną Induską, boginią, a nawet ucieleśnieniem narodu w postaci Matki-Indii (Bharat Mata)
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
The Influence of Raja Ravi Varma’s Mythological Subjects in Popular Art
Get PDFThis paper will examine the aesthetic qualities that Raja Ravi Varma helped to introduce to mythological paintings and then to popular devotional prints with the Ravi Varma Press, as well as the influence of the aesthetic to other areas of visual culture in India. Prior to the 1993 retrospective exhibition in New Delhi on Raja Ravi Varma, little was known about his impact on the calendar prints of today. By tracing the rise of academic realism in late 19th and early 20th century India and Ravi Varma’s role within it, I gained a clearer understanding of the degree to which one man can impact an entire nation’s visual culture. There are conflicting opinions on exactly how much he is responsible for the innovations that led to the modernist movement in India, but my study concluded that popular prints are too imperative to visual culture in India to exclude from aesthetic and historical analysis.
Much of my work was done through gathering print sources, but I travelled to Ravi Varma’s home state of Kerala to visit his original oil paintings at the Sri Chatra Art Gallery. I also stayed in Madurai to observe the culture surrounding popular prints in urban settings, such as roadside chai and snack stalls. This study supports a growing academic interest in examining popular art’s place in the ever-developing definition art history
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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