Ganga is the tern used to refer to a goddess of the river Ganges. River Ganges is India’s largely consecrated mass of water. Hindus are known to have strong beliefs. They are known to believe that by virtue of bathing in her holy waters this will help wash way ones sins. It is on this basis that they conduct repeated sporadic ritualistic washings in order to secure a position or a place in the heavenly world.
On the other hand, the Museo delle is one of the museums in the city of Lugano city in Switzerland. This museum’s exhibit works of art relating to the goddess of the river Ganges, a Hindu goddess. Her authority and supposed power to wash away sins and liberate individuals or persons from the ashes of the dead has made his works of art in these museums very popular. Ganga is occasionally represented as a gorgeous or beautiful woman with a tail of a fish. The tail takes the place of the legs and she is usually depicted as Makara, a renowned water monster.
In Switzerland there exists Lake Lugano in the midst of other famous Italian lakes. This Lake is also said to have powerful forces underlying it. It is in a way linked to the River Ganges in the Hindu society. There are diverse mythology linked with Ganga and very staunch Hindu philosophies related with the river consecrate it as a goddess. The Hindus view goddess Ganga as rather a fair-haired complexioned fine-looking female wearing a white circlet with a water lily and a water pot in her hands, and riding her pet crocodile. Basically there are two major most important decorations adorning the portrait of the Ganga.
The first of the adornments is when she holds a pot perceived to be full in her hands. This is usually taken to illustrate that she is sustaining a wom...
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One of our aims is to expose emerging talent through exhibitions at the gallery and participation in select international art fairs.Located in a large, refurbished colonial structure in what is fast becoming Kolkata’s gallery hub, Ganges Art Gallery and its shows have received favourable reviews in newspapers and periodicals.
We are looking to expand our presence overseas by engaging in strategic partnerships with museums and galleries of note in Asia, Europe and the United States. Owned and managed by Smita Bajoria, Ganges is, in the future, looking to go beyond the boundaries of a traditional art gallery by hosting talks, art appreciation courses, film screenings and book readings. Our endeavour is to be a centre of creative and artistic excellence in a city synonymous with cultural activity.
The Greek side elucidates the historical meaning of the libation. The Old Indic side of the watershed reveals the beginning of the religious significance.
The Egyptians honored the river for providing food for them by nourishing the land and making it fertile with its yearly flooding. The Nile also provided for quick transportation between Upper and Lower Egypt, allowing for Menes, the King of Upper Egypt, to unite the two and creating the first unified state. In the Indus River Valley civilization the river is also given honor as it can be reflected by one Indian name for “river”: lok-mata or “mother of the people.” The Indian people’s way of life was also defined by the monsoon, a seasonal wind. This shows the similarities in the civilizations areas that led to their early uprisings, common for all ancient civilizations, is a river to provide for food and water, so that they may become farmers and cultivate the land in a single settled area. Rivers and a water source were most important for these ancient civilizations as it can be seen, that gods were thought of to provide for them, leading to polytheism in these
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has one of the finest Asian art collections that has enlightened and strengthened my understanding in my personal art experience. The Museum itself is an artistic architectural structure that graces the entire block on 82nd Street in Manhattan. Entering inside, I sensed myself going back into an era, into a past where people traded ideas and learned from each other. It is a past, where I still find their works of yesteryears vividly within my grasp, to be remembered and shared as if their reflections of works were cast for the modern devoted learner.
the brim and a navy blue dress with a small white dot in the print. Her collar and cuffs
Museum, F. (2010b). Intersections: World Arts Local Lives. In UCLA (Ed.), (pp. 1-12). Los Angeles: Regents of the University of California.
her wedding dress. When she gets up to make tea, she places her things down
Signifiers include an advertisement for patent cooking stoves disposed to all nations by Queen Victoria seated on her throne under golden and reddish decorated ornaments dressed in white and maroon gown and a blue pageant with neck lace on her bosom. Long curly hair contains a golden crown on her right hand side there’s plenty of stoves , smiling at the African men being blessed with a cooking stove dressed in animal skin wearing African chains, dreadlocks, rings around his arm on the right has animal fair around his ankle and have bare feet.
symbolism. "Her hand and wrist so finely formed" shows her delicacy but shown as the Virgin
Hinduism is a complex religion that has a variety of beliefs and traditions. In the nineteenth century, the British had to categorize the people living in the region of the Indus River for census purposes thus getting the name Hindus by foreigners. Today they have a preference of being labeled as "Sanatana Dharma (eternal religion)" (Pg 79)
DeWitte, Debra J. Gateways To Art. (2012). New York: New York. Thames & Hudson . 244. Print.
The River is essential in helping Siddhartha come to an important realization of Unity. He hears the river laugh at him, making him realize that he is acting foolish.
The questionable influence and dominance of western culture is at the forefront of a new form of seemingly ephemeral diplomatic history that is termed ‘new internationalism’. Internationalism itself is not really a new concept, and is basically a system based on equality for all people and cultures on a global scale. In the global art world ‘new internationalism’ is an active topic and was the focus of a 1994 INIVA Symposium entitled, A New International Symposium. The topics discussed included: Recording the International; Art, History and the Modern Museum; Beyond Diversity and Difference; Curatorship and International Exhibitions.1 During his lecture at the symposium, sculptor, essayist and poet Jimmie Durham puts forth the idea that, “…Europeans seem to think that, as art is their invention, effective art is within a developed vocabulary and accent…”2 This kind of statement emphasizes the enormous task of disuniting ‘actual’ art history from that recorded under the influence of western culture, and it demonstrates the long-standing influence of imperial thinking.
P.C. Cast in the book, Goddess of the Sea, asserts that the beauty and strength of females come from within and that they should always stick together. Cast supports her assertion by telling the story of an ordinary woman, named Christine “CC” Canady, who receives magic in her life. Along the way, CC switches souls with a mermaid, travels through time which leads her to gain more confidence about herself and discover the strength and beauty of women. The author’s purpose is to point out that women exhibit more than just appearances or a dependent demeanor so that females can acquire a higher self-confidence in themselves and other women and males will be abe to either alter or gain a more cultivated perspective on female roles. The author writes
The novel River God by Wilbur Smith is set in Ancient Egypt, during a time when the kingdoms were beginning to collapse and the Upper and Lower Egypt were separated between two rulers. The story is in the view-point of Taita, a highly multi-talented eunuch slave. At the beginning of the story, Taita belongs to Lord Intef and helps manage his estate along with caring for his beautiful daughter, Lostris. She is in love with Tanus, a fine solider and also Taita’s friend. Unfortunately, Lord Intef despises Tanus’s father, Lord Harrab, and Intef was actually the one who the cause of the fall of Harrab’s estate, unknowingly to Lostris and Tanus. Taita’s goal is to bring back Egypt to its former glory, but with so many bandits and invaders it would be a difficult task.
Hindu mythology has interesting theories on how the Earth was created and the reincarnation of people, Hinduism is very different to many other mythologies and has some unique key features that make it stand out from the rest. History tells that there are over 330 million gods in Hindu mythology. There are six main gods in Hinduism. Hindu’s have an interesting belief of what happens to them after death, the afterlife Hindus believe in must be met by accomplishing a goal. Hinduism is a unique belief in many gods, the life cycle and reincarnation of its people.