Authors: Dr G O Shivakumar
Abstract: Visual arts and spirituality have been interconnected throughout history, with artists often expressing and exploring their spiritual beliefs, experiences, and questions through their work. This connection can be observed in various cultures and periods, where art serves as a means of conveying the sublime, the sacred, and the ineffable.Religious art can often seem too sentimental and un-ironic for Visual Art WorldAs a tool of creative expression, communication, and self-definition, art is an intrinsic facet of human existence that revolves around the religions. As a stimulus for creativity, religion is the spiritual stimulus that conjoins humanity with divinity through spiritual experience and mythology. Be it music, sculptures, paintings or any other art, religion always played a major cameo in each.It is not only that these forms of art are in- spired by each other and learn from each other. More than anything else, the context in which they are found gives them energy in all kinds of ways—including, though not solely, energy that has withdrawn from religions and philosophies. Biographers research such contexts; artists speak about them in interviews; readers, viewers, and listeners place the work of art within their own horizon of understanding. The transcendence of beauty in visual arts refers to the capacity of art to elevate the viewer's experience beyond the immediate and tangible. It involves a deep emotional or intellectual connection that goes beyond the surface of the artwork. Here are several aspects that contribute to the transcendence of beauty in visual Arts:Different Cultures have also tried to express the “Divine on earth” or “Avatar” through the sacred temples, where the deities, images of their devotion appear on an altar The Hindu deity Lord Krishna is the most depicted god in Indian paintings. These paintings can be found throughout the country, done in different styles. The Tanjore paintings, Mysore paintings, Rajputana and Madhubani paintings are known for depicting various events of lord Krishna’s life. His role in the epic Mahabharata, victory over evils, his birth and other various episodes of his life has been capturedon the canvas by many artists.
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