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Raja Ravi Varma Biography - Life History, Paintings & Art Work, Achievements
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Audible Download Audio Books. Shopbop Designer Fashion Brands. Amazon Prime Music Stream millions of songs, ad-free. Whatever he came across in his day to day living, such as pictures of animals, everyday acts and scenes, later adorned the walls of his home, reflecting his creativity and artistic sense. While his family abhorred this behaviour of young Varma, it was his uncle, Raja Raja Varma, a Tanjore artist, who realized his true potential and calling.
He resolved to tap the creative ingenuity of the young boy to make him a proficient artist. With the help of his uncle and the ruling king, Ayilyam Thirunal, he received training and education in arts. His uncle also gave him his first ever drawing lesson. At the age of 14, he moved to Thiruvananthapuram, where he received training in water painting by the palace painter, Rama Swamy Naidu.
It was at Kilimanoor Palace that his talent was encouraged and reared by Ayilyam Thirunal, who alternatively exposed the former to the famous paintings of Italian painters and Western artists. All through, instead of using the conventional paints, he opted for indigenous paints made from leaves, flowers, tree bark and soil.
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It was only after seeing an advertisement in a newspaper that he brought his first set of oil paints from Madras. During those times, oil painting was a new medium and only one person, namely Ramaswamy Naicker of Madurai, had the knowledge of oil painting techniques, in Travacore. But he refused to teach Ravi Varma the art of oil painting as he saw him as his potential rival. It was Arumugham Pillai, Naicker's student, who then took it upon himself to teach him the nuances of oil painting much against the wishes of his teacher.
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This knowledge was then supplemented by some more information from Dutch portrait artist Theodor Jenson who had come over to paint the portrait of Ayilyam Thirunal and his wife It was through trial and error that he finally learned the nuances of oil painting by blending colors, mixing them in pliable medium and smoothly manoeuvring through the strokes, allowing time for the color to dry. Interestingly, his painted portrait of the royal couple, Ayilyam Thirunal and his wife far excelled the one done by Dutch artist, thus reflecting his true spirit as an artist and his creative ingeniousness.
He did not restrict his creativity to the teachings of Dutch painter or tips by Arumugham Pillai and instead got influenced by a whole of other things including music of veteran singers, Kathakali dancers, and artistic interpretations of epics and manuscripts of ancient families. From to , he painted several portraits of important Indian aristocracy and British officials and gained much reputation for himself as a portrait painter. What gave him the edge over other painters was his sensitivity towards the subject and the finesse with which he executed the subject.
Year marked the beginning of a prosperous era in the career of this proficient painter who won the first prize at the Madras Painting exhibition.