Rama
1885
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1885
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Rama is a 1885 paint by Unknown, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a dark-skinned figure in bright, bold colors. The person wears a yellow and red outfit with a red hat and black shoes. They’re holding a curved object in one hand and a small item in the other, with white dots along the edges of their clothes. The figure’s face is outlined in white, and the background is a simple gray. The style looks flat with strong colors and clean lines, not much shading. If you like this style, check out Realism for more straightforward, detailed paintings.
The artwork is an opaque watercolour painting on paper created in 1885, depicting Rama, the seventh avatar of the Hindu deity Vishnu. It was acquired in 1894 from Miss M Steele as part of a collection inherited from her mother, a Sanskrit scholar at Cambridge, who may have originally collected the piece during her time in India.
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