Eyes are Oceans with Unfathomable Depths

Eyes that are oceans with unfathomable depth, eyes that are clouds with showers of nectar, eyes where bloom multitude of flowers and oozes sweetest honey, eyes that breed heavens of enduring delight, eyes which time fails to span and wherein space discovers all its dimensions, all lengths, all widths and all heights, eyes, the abode of gods and of all that is celestial and divine, eyes and eyes alone is the theme of this all time classic of Kishangarh art style. The Kishangarh brush was first to discover in eyes a figure's totality, its beauty and build, its passion and personality, its myths and realities, its spirituality and the colours and character of its outward frame. The Kishangarh artist innovated the technique of crystallizing in eyes passions, emotions, yearnings, oceans and skies, flowers' fragrance, moon's glow, night's soothing drowsy quietude, heaps of gold and a rivulet's flow. It is thus that the artist caught and crystallized his hero, a prince or an innovation of Lord Krishna, when he was discovering in the eyes of his sweet-heart his love and her beauty and was transported to lands of transcendental delight.

The painting, a reminiscent of the master strokes of Kishangarh's brush, draws its figures against a simple background. The terrace where the entire drama is laid has a subdued parapet unwilling to discover its individual identity. The shrubs blooming beyond it seek their relevance in their peacock feather-like look which coupled with figure's yellow drags the imagination to a realisation of Lord Krishna in the painted figure of the prince. A kind of celestial transparency, marble's purity and touch, moon's glow and a kind of unearthliness characterise the figures. The colours that discovered forms in the painting are undiscoverable now. It is difficult for the viewing eye to say whether it has before it a form in marble or a thing on canvas.An ecstatic delight which love and absolute submission bear is a song that colours sing and what the eye perceives and absorbs within is a symphony.

This description by Prof. P.C. Jain and Dr Daljeet. Prof. Jain specializes on the aesthetics of ancient Indian literature. Dr Daljeet is the chief curator of the Visual Arts Gallery at the National Museum of India, New Delhi. They have both collaborated on numerous books on Indian art and culture.