Lord Jagannath is a Hindu deity worshiped in the Odisha region of India. He is regarded as an form of Krishna and as the Supreme Being. There are some aspects to the history and philosophical implications of Lord Jagannath I find meaningful, but what I wanted to share with the board is the iconography of the deity. It bridges the abstract and the corporeal in a manner I love.
Here's an illustration of Lord Jagannath with his siblings, his brother Balabhadra and his sister Subhadra. Lord Jagannath always has a black face, Balabhadra always has a white face, and Subhadra has a yellow face. The trio is commonly worshiped together.
>6769
>deception
depiction, sorry
Anonymous :
7 days ago :
No.6772
>>6773
>>6772
It's drug art at its core like Mesoamerican art. You gotta appreciate it on that level, apples and oranges, etc.
Hindu bas-relief and architectural art might appeal to your sensibilities?
>>6785
Without wishing to be rude, Hindu iconography and art has always struck me as being so over-the-top and so gaudy as to be unable to be taken seriously. It looks to me like something a very young child might make.
There's also zero emotional connection, though perhaps this is because I am not a Hindu.
Here is the European tradition for contrast. This is a Piero della Francesca painting.
Anonymous :
7 days ago :
No.6773
>>7082
>>6773
>It's drug art
This resonates with my experience. One time I was high and I saw a bas-relief of multi-armed Krishna and it might as well have been an animated gif. I still wish I could find that image
>>6772
Without wishing to be rude, Hindu iconography and art has always struck me as being so over-the-top and so gaudy as to be unable to be taken seriously. It looks to me like something a very young child might make.
There's also zero emotional connection, though perhaps this is because I am not a Hindu.
Here is the European tradition for contrast. This is a Piero della Francesca painting.
It's drug art at its core like Mesoamerican art. You gotta appreciate it on that level, apples and oranges, etc.
Hindu bas-relief and architectural art might appeal to your sensibilities?
This is the same god as what is sometimes called in English 'Juggernaut', is it not?
I know there is some unusual tradition where they make massive rolling statues of him and then sort of play chicken with the wheels as it rolls through the streets.
>>6766
This is my favorite image of Lord Jaggannath, depicted here as the Supreme Being. The form of the deity is composed of scenes from Hindu mythology, with the ten forms of Lord Vishnu making up his crown.
That one is really nice. I assume it's a formless god?
>>6772Without wishing to be rude, Hindu iconography and art has always struck me as being so over-the-top and so gaudy as to be unable to be taken seriously. It looks to me like something a very young child might make.
There's also zero emotional connection, though perhaps this is because I am not a Hindu.
Here is the European tradition for contrast. This is a Piero della Francesca painting.
It's always looked overwhelming to me, there's just tons going on most of the time. The simplicity of OP's design helps alleviate that imo
I find Hinduism to be interesting, as its the most popular "pagan" religion (by which, I only mean non Abrahamic) still existing and I know practically nothing about it.
>>6773
>>6772
It's drug art at its core like Mesoamerican art. You gotta appreciate it on that level, apples and oranges, etc.
Hindu bas-relief and architectural art might appeal to your sensibilities?
>It's drug art
This resonates with my experience. One time I was high and I saw a bas-relief of multi-armed Krishna and it might as well have been an animated gif. I still wish I could find that image