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The Way of the Indian Artist

Art as Yoga, Editorial, Spirit and Forms of Indian Art, The Way of an Indian Artist / By /

In the Indian vision, all Art is a medium to express the Ananda, this Eternal Delight through form. An Indian painter or sculptor seeks the pure intensities of delight as he searches for the universal beauty revealed or hidden in all creation. As he seeks perfection in the form that comes through his hand or brush, his inner being experiences a sort of enlightenment through the power of a certain “spiritually aesthetic Ananda”, reminds Sri Aurobindo.

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The Aims of Indian Art – Part 1

Art as Yoga, Spirit and Forms of Indian Art, The Purpose of Art: From Beauty to Bliss, The Way of an Indian Artist / By /

Volume V, Issue 11-12Author: Ananda Coomaraswamy Editor’s Note: Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy is a familiar name for every student or rasika of Indian Art. He is widely acknowledged as one of the great art historians and scholars of Indian art. Coomaraswamy was an early interpreter of Indian culture to the West. His numerous writings cover areas

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A Little Girl and Her Big Brother – Stories of a Personal Relation with the Divine

Aspiration, Receptivity, Sincerity, Spirit and Forms of Indian Art, Sunlit Path, Tales and Stories, The Way of an Indian Artist, Twelve Soul-qualities / By /

Two short stories written by a young author and artist whose work is primarily inspired by her devotion and adoration for Gampu bhai, the name she uses to lovingly call her ishta devata, Lord Ganesha.

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An Artist’s Meditation: On Space, Art and Experience

Sacred Spaces, Spirit and Forms of Indian Art, The Way of an Indian Artist / By /

An artist – sculptor and painter, muses on the inner dimensions of space, consciousness, art and experience. The piece has a meditative quality to it, and takes the reader to a space within where the inner gradually begins to merge with the outer infinite which is not different from the infinity within.

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