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Ravi Varma Paintings And Jon Mcnaughton Paintings

By Darren Hartley


Ravi Varma paintings were most remembered for their portraits of sari-clad women portrayed as shapely and graceful. They became an important motif at the time, with reproductions found in almost every middle class home. Ravi is considered among the greatest painters in the history of Indian art.

The maturity and completeness of Ravi Varma paintings came about in the later years spent by Ravi in Mysore, Baroda and other parts of the country. It was then that he sharpened and expanded his skills to full blossom. This was after he discovered and learned of new techniques and media in the field of painting during his stay at the royal palace of Thiruvananthapuram.

Ravi Varma paintings are considered modern among the traditionalists and rational among the moderns. They provided the vital link between what is traditional Indian art and what is contemporary between the Thanjavoor School and Western Academic realism. They brought attention to Indian painting from the larger world.

Jon McNaughton paintings were paintings from the heart rather than drawings from photographs. This is primarily because Jon found, on his physical returning, that nostalgic places from his past are not as lovely as he remembers them in his mind. He preferred to look at the world through rose-colored glasses, so to speak.

The works of the artists from the French Barbizon School of painting provided the inspiration for Jon McNaughton paintings. These consist of softly painted landscapes depicting genre scenes around the French countryside. They contained subtle tones of color and light. They became the springboard for the creativity found in Jon McNaughton paintings.

It is Jon's hope that his Jon McNaughton paintings will reach its viewers, not only on a superficial level, but rather touch something inside them, that is not easily accessible. His goal is for his paintings to leave his admirers with a feeling that the paintings have become part of them and therefore forever engraved in their minds and hearts.




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