Rasa Renaissance Poster based on original painting “Manjishtha’s Ecstasy” by Artist Mumbiram
Caption on the Poster:
PREMA VIVARTA Deluges of Ecstasy
Mumbiram&Party
High Quality Print (semi gloss paper, 195g/m2)
Available in 3 Sizes:
A2 (42x59cm)
A1 (59x84cm)
A0 (84x118cm)
This is a collector’s item. You will get your Rasa Poster individually signed by Artist Mumbiram.
Rasa Appreciation of original painting
“Manjishtha’s Ecstasy”
(Charcoal, watercolor and gold leaf, 1990, Mumbiram)
Raaga or attachment between lovers gives rise to many a contradiction. Even a thorny rocky wilderness in blazing sun appears like a bed of cool lotuses when you are waiting for Beloved. Scandalous false rumours linking you with Beloved appear like hymns of some esoteric ancient sacred texts to you. When attachment is unconditional and secretive it appears blue like a clear crystal sapphire. When attachment makes you drop your worst inhibitions and fills you with heroic courage it appears deep blue. You have fallen in love at very first sight, you have become obsessed, even hearing Beloved´s name gives you the goose-bumps, yet when you come face to face you are stunned like a statue. You appear indifferent ! Experts see in such attachment the color safflower red. When love appears self-sustaining, self-effulgent, everlasting, ever new, soaring to ever-new heights, it appears bright red like the pigment of the Bengal Madder, Manjishtha. The misty eyed day-dreaming Manjishtha gopi here appears to be hugging a golden peacock. Experts say that Radha and Krishna are the real reservoirs of Manjishtha Raaga. In the heights of her excruciating ecstasies of separation from Beloved Krishna, Radha sometimes embraced a dark Tamaal tree mistaking it for the dark beautiful Krishna. Great sages consider such ecstatic delusions to be the most relishable state of affairs between Love and Beloved. Such highly exalted state of attachment is called Prema Vivarta state by authorities on Rasa Theory. This Prema Vivarta is the prevailing state in Mumbiram’s art and spirituality.
Exotic red madder and bright gold leaf in this painting are a potently powerful combination. Yet it doesn´t distract us from the other frugal detail. The green bangles, the dark blouse, the ruby-red ear-studs. She is sporting a peacock feather in her crest. She appears nearly oblivious of the peacock she is hugging. Her face radiates divine bliss. She is immersed in the highest Prema Vivarta mood of spiritual ecstasy.
This is a rare Rasa Masterpiece, a timeless icon. It makes you forget all about Mumbiram and everybody else.