Art, Hindu Art

Art Sunday with a bit of a difference. These are all images from the Hindu faith. Please don’t think this means I know any thing about Hinduism, I don’t, I just think the images are interesting, often beautiful and nearly always disregarded by the western world. Hinduism sees the whole of creation as the work of three fundamental forces symbolized by three gods, which constitutes the Hindu Trinity or ‘Trimurti’:

 Brahma - the creator,
Vishnu - the sustainer,
 and Shiva - the destroyer.This Shiva statue can be found at  Parmarth Niketan Ghat in Rishikesh (India)

Ganesha, also spelled Ganesa or Ganesh is one of the best-known and most widely worshipped deities in the Hindu world .
 His image is found through out India and Nepal and is instantly recognisable by  the non Hindu due to his elephants head.

Radha with Krishna
 playing a flute
                                                    Hindu Buddha









There is quite a lot of Hundi art work here to look at
http://www.himalayanacademy.com/art/

This is Shiva dancing on the demon Apasmara

On this BBC site you can find lots of information about the faith, its history and its beliefs.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/hinduism/

Hindu art at Radhadesh

delete reply nemo4sun wrote on Feb 7, '10 i love it :)

edit delete reply forgetmenot525 wrote on Feb 7, '10 nemo4sun said i almost missed adding you to the tour My fault, I've been pretty busy today and posted yeasterday without teling you..............never mind, you found it in the end. As you see...............I've got a bit of an 'Eastern' theme going this weekend :-)

delete reply kathyinozarks wrote on Feb 7, '10 enjoyed your post today-thanks Loretta

delete reply pestep55 wrote on Feb 7, '10 Beautifully fascinating and so well presented /:-)

delete reply nemo4sun wrote on Feb 7, '10 lovely i almost missed adding you to the tour sorry :)

delete reply mimi29827 wrote on Feb 7, '10 Hindu art and the Hindu religion are subjects I've been curious about for decades, but have never had information at hand when I had free time to spend. Thanks for posting this - particularly on a Sunday afternoon when I can actually enjoy perusing!

delete reply philsgal7759 wrote on Feb 7, '10 I think here in the West we tend to overlook a lot of Eastern culture. Sad as it has much to teach us. Beautiful collection Thanks

delete reply mitchylr wrote on Feb 7, '10 I've always been fascinated by Indian art, particularly Hindu. Having lived in a very multicultural area of Birmingham for many years before moving to Wales, I had an early introduction much of Indian culture....music, movies, art.

delete reply starfishred wrote on Feb 7, '10 HINDI ART s always so wonderfully colorful this is just wonderful loretta thanks

delete reply bennett1 wrote on Feb 6, '10 I am so tired but I just had to look at these. They are fascinating. Have you ever seen the movie "Mississippi Masala" with Sharita Chodhury and Denzel Washington? Interesting look at culture, racism and love. Little known flick with no publicity, but powerful.

delete reply lonewolfwithin wrote on Feb 6, '10 forgetmenot525 said I just think the images are interesting, often beautiful and nearly always disregarded by the western world i totaly agree and love the selection you've presented!

delete reply vaziry wrote on Feb 6, '10 Dear loretta i thank you so much for such a fantastic and informative post , i truly enjoyed it very much specially the song on the clip . Paintings are fabulous .

delete reply hedgewitch9 wrote on Feb 6, '10 Beautiful artwork! I have two Hindu paintings on my wall, one has script on the back but I have no understanding of its content........... .....thank you for posting these :))

delete reply greenwytch wrote on Feb 6, '10 you know i love this, loretta! thanks so much! namaste. ; D