14" Durga Devi Tanjore Painting with 22K Gold work

14" Durga Devi Tanjore Painting with 22K Gold work Tanjore school of painting is among the fore most paintings style of south India. The technique of painting on wood or clothe in Tanjore school is very unique. This art form is known for its vibrant colours, great composition and expressive faces. The Tanjore Paintings carry relief work which is more pronounced than other similar school of paintings. Besides employing pure gold leaf to cover parts of the paintings, Tanjore painting are also embellished with coloured stones, beads, and mirrors, adding an additional layer of texture and visual interest.

The themes of these paintings are mostly drawn from Vedic culture like Bhagwatha, Ramayana & also includes figures like Lakshmi Devi, Nataraja, Ganesha, Venkateshwara swamy, Satyanarayana Swamy, Narasimha Swamy, Sri Krishna themes in Tanjore concept have been a major attraction from centuries. Group themes like Srinivasa Kalyanam, Rama Pattabhishekam, Shiva Puranam, Dasavatara are widely in demand these days too. We have also developed new themes like Raja Ravivarma Series, Ragini Paintings & Subjects based on customer requirements. At Shaaranga, You can be rest assured of purity of gold & Perfect anatomy with beautiful faces. Our paintings are ideal for Pooja Room, Residential & corporate interiors and gifting for any occasion.

It may kindly be noted that most of the Tanjore painting artists are very religious in nature, culturally very rooted and traditional to the core, we at Shaaranga very strongly believe that the external influence in their art forms isn’t there, they have been masters with great artistic skills and innovative in execution, yet they concentrated on their indigenous religious subjects. Unfortunately, it has been a practice from the British era; some so called historians have always linked indigenous art forms to some external art forms, they have even said the same thing about the Tanjore paintings, they linked it to the foreign art forms in which human figurative illustrations are forbidden. We have spent a good part of our life in this handicrafts industry, been with the artisans for more than three decades, did our own research hence can vouch for the purity of the art forms.