Ever wondered what is to look around like an artist? It’s simple..just be YOU. Not just when you are traveling in unknown places or mountains or heritage sites, you can practically start being YOU to look around like an artist.
India is vibrant..oh yes. the culture is colorful. You might see almost all the colors in one place at any given time. That has come from it’s rich tribal art. I always feel that when you run out of colors, you must, must google any Indian indigenous art website, and its all there. Now given chance to the contemporary world to look at a particular place which still thrives the culture of kings and queens…then you are sure to never fall short of colors at all. Rajasthan is one such place.
So I see a young boy with a small traveling theater standing at the gate of a old palace. He was so confident about his cute and colorful dolls. He had an old man sitting next to his small theater with a popular musical instrument…wow..and the strings of the dolls were in his tiny fingers. What a confidence. He said first see my show then pay. Loved it. The song was full of melody, the music by the old man synced pretty well and so did the doll dance. Most of the times these artists use popular stories from India, mostly from the epics. And the story talks about the valor of the king and the beauty and sacrifice of the queen. Seldom ate the romances between them. But the whole experience leaves you amazed. Well, no need of an expensive show really..
Moving ahead are the wonderful arches holding the parasol to the royals. The elegant columns and arches blending in the same, connecting a long chain…standing in various rows, undisturbed and very disciplined. They play with their own shadows and create a magnificent ballet. The decorative columns running with design patterns all over start hide and seek with the bright Sun. In Rajasthan the brightness of Sun is charming. The palace looks as if bathed in golden powder. Colors abundance…here it is. The shadows are exclusively dark. The chiaroscuro is astonishing. Like a huge canvas.
Why don’t we now look a little more above, above those dancing arches? Yes, wonderful, now you see a huge dome like arch with intricate design patterns. Thousands of flowers and leaves, spread of various labyrinths in and around maze of multiple arches. They overlook on you, like a designed sky. They are clear, wide and curvaceous, symmetrical, subtle in colors and graceful in posture.
When you look at them as humans they talk to you. They change their forms with each passing Sunlight and breeze. So how difficult was it to see art around us? Well this can be treated in some mundane stuff around as well. Oh yes, why not? Let us try next time. Keep reading.
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