POOMPUHAR 'GANESH DARSHAN' ART EXPO

POOMPUHAR ‘GANESH DARSHAN’ 

ART EXPO 

by Suman Gupta

Mumbai : The much awaited TamilNadu Handicrafts Development Corporation Limited, popularly known as Poompuhar, a Government of TamilNadu Undertaking, Handicrafts Exhibition was inaugurated by Ms. Ashwini Bhide, IAS, MD Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation.

During the inauguration Ms. Ashwini Bhide said that this is one of the impressive art and culture exhibitions she attended and impressed with the skills the artisans rendered to the painstakingly made creations which translates the rich tradition and culture of India.

The unique art and craft exhibition display specially crafted Ganesh Idols from different materials such as Bronze, Copper, Wood, Clay, Crystal etc. along with this there are many other household products are also displayed. The chief attractions are Bronze Icons, Brass Lamps, Wood Carvings, Tanjore Paintings, Co-optex Silk and Cotton Sarees, Organic Sarees, Artistic Jewllery, Handcrafted Furniture and many articles for show and elegancy.

Brass Oil Lamps, Thanjavur Art plates, Thanjavur Paintings, Granite Stone, Soap Stone, Imitation Jewellery, Dress Materials & Tops, Silk Sarees, Varanasi and Lucknow Chikkan Sarees, Changu, Ruthraksham, Agarbathies, Incense and perfumery, Lac Bangles, Channa Pattana toys, Rose wood and White wood carvings and many more gift items collected from various states. More than 30 artisans from various states are directly participating and selling their products.

A special discount of 10% to 20% is offered on all the items in this exhibition, and also all the major credit cards are accepted without making any service charges.

About sculpture: Indian sculpture, stone and bronze, like Indian painting, took for its material the symmetry of the human body, male and female, and the asymmetry of human emotions. Both these were then transposed on to gods and goddesses; just as the human body itself was transfigured in the architecture of the temples and in the seven basic notes of Indian music.

The art of making images in bronze reached its most brilliant expression in the Chola period; and the Chola period the tenth century in particular, was without question among the most creative periods of Indian art. The Chola bronzes express more than the preceding Pallava rock-cut sculpture did, the fullness of the human body and emotions. The virility and strength of the male figure, and the sensuousness and grace of the female acquired in them very nearly a life-like quality. One can see in them the expression of a vast range of human emotions: ecstasy, simple joy, tenderness, tranquillity, authority, and coyness; and because nothing in life was negated, even the aggressive, the violent and the grotesque. All are energy movement, dance. In the dance of Siva the Cosmic Man, all human emotions come together, dance and are transformed. The Nataraja group of icons hold, therefore, a central place in Indian art.