February 9 – March 12, 2022
RAJA RAM SHARMA
CONTEMPORARY INDIAN MINIATURES
February 9 – March 12, 2022
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Raja Ram Sharma is a master miniature and temple painter living in Udaipur, India. At the age of 13 he left home to be trained in the Nathdwara School of painting, founded in 17th century Rajasthan. In contemporary culture this means that his daily work is devoted to a traditional devotional art narrating The Life of Lord Krishna in paint on textiles called Pichwai, which hang in Hindu temples. However, in his home studio, away from his Pichwai workshop, Sharma has always practiced miniature painting, reinventing the evocative Mewar miniature tradition which he studied at the City Palace Museum of Udaipur since he was a young boy.
Measuring 6 x 8 or 8 x 14 inches, Sharma’s miniature paintings on cotton rag paper are made with one-hair brushes he makes from rabbit and squirrel hairs. His medium is a traditional hand ground gouache, made from pulverizing pigments from stone in a mortar and dispersing them in a mixture of gum arabic and water. His centuries old technique reveals the inherited knowledge of color and brushwork passed along a lineage of painters from 1600 to the present.
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