“Sachiko Konno dreams of Jagannath” – Rasa Masterpiece

1.200,00 

Rasa Masterpiece “Sachiko Konno dreams of Jagannath” – Rasa Masterpiece by Mumbiram

A Flagship of Rasa Renaissance

  • 110 x 90 cm

Collector’s Item

High Quality Canvas Print

individually signed by Mumbiram

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Collector’s Item Canvas Print of Original Masterpiece “Sachiko Konno dreams of Jagannath” by Mumbiram

As a rendering of a reclining sleeping maiden this painting has no peer. The intimate intertwining of the artist’s life and his art is the vital ingredient that goes in making of such a natural Rasa Classic.

110 x 90 cm
High Quality Canvas Print
individually signed by Mumbiram

This is a collector’s item and you will get your Rasa Masterpiece individually signed by Artist Mumbiram. 

Rasa Appreciation of original masterpiece “Sachiko Konno dreams of Jagannath” by Mumbiram

 

“Sachiko Konno dreams of Jagannath”

(Oil on Canvas, Japan, 1988)

Mumbiram´s very first oil painting in Japan had a reclining Gokula “Dreaming of India”. This is one of five oil paintings that Mumbiram made during his stay in Japan. Mumbiram met Gokula in Krishna’s Vrindavan. It was a very unique friendship between two lovers of Krishna who were too sincere to belong to any organized sect that existed in the holy land. A detailed account of their time together in Vrindavan and in Japan is available in “Gokula Catalogue” (Distant Drummer). Gokula is the spiritual name that Sachiko got from her preceptor in Vrindavan. One need not know all of that to appreciate this painting though it does greatly enhance the experience of this work as Rasa Art.

Mumbiram has chosen Jagannath idol as representing Krishna

Here we see a reclining Gokula dreaming of India. Gokula has fallen asleep while reading a book about India. She is wearing a green tie-dye saree with red border. Jagannath has appeared in her dream. Mumbiram had brought with him from India many nice sarees for Gokula. Gokula had worn only sarees in India. Mumbiram was always proud of that. Gokula was very happy that her beloved artist liked to see her in sarees. Vrindavan was on their mind. Their bodies were in Japan. Their minds would not leave the magical domain of Krishna.

Gokula is madly in love with India and shares with Mumbiram her love for beloved Krishna
Gokula is madly in love with India and shares with Mumbiram her love for beloved Krishna

Making paintings in Japan was a great challenge. The rendering has to be true to several distinct cross-cultural realities. One is that he is Artist Mumbiram who makes great mural masterpieces such as “The Forest Women Visiting Krishna and the Gopis”. He is also Mumbiram who makes exquisite charcoal portraits of dark beautiful rag-pickers of India. Then again he is in Japan that has its own tradition of paintings that have the tidiness and grace of ink-and-brush calligraphy. The woman that is posing for him is beloved Gokula who is madly in love with India and with whom he shares love of his beloved Krishna.

Mumbiram treats every single painting as a unique creation. He does not let his art get into a stereotyped style. Mumbiram’s hands-on approach has created a great composition and a great mood. The patterns on Gokula’s saree and on the Indian printed handloom sheet are created with carved potatoes as printing blocks. Mumbiram has chosen Jagannath idol as representing Krishna. That is significant because it has an equivalent of sorts in the Daruma idol of Japan. (One buys the Daruma doll at the local temple. You paint one eye of the doll and make a wish. When Daruma fulfills the wish you paint the other eye.) Mumbiram has included the blue porcelain bird of fantasy from Gokula’s home that had fascinated him. It is the equivalent of the peacock that is so prominent in Krishna’s retinue.

This blue porcelain bird of fantasy from Gokula's home is appearing as equivalent of the peacock that is prominent in Krishna's retinue.
This blue porcelain bird of fantasy from Gokula's home is appearing as equivalent of the peacock that is prominent in Krishna's retinue.

As a rendering of a reclining sleeping maiden this painting has no peer. The intimate intertwining of the artist’s life and his art is the vital ingredient that goes in making of such a natural Rasa Classic.