Palaces
Passion
India
Asian Art Museum
"... invite a way of looking that is different from the habits Western art cultivates."
"You need to go close to the small, ornate paintings...but the results of the inspection are fascinating."
"Boisterous murals bursting with life."
It all ends on April 29th. You're running out of time to see this spectacular show at San Francisco's Asian Art Museum
The Art of India's Mewar Kingdom
When the nineteenth-century American painter Edwin Lord Weeks arrived at Udaipur, the capital of Mewar in India’s Rajasthan region —the “Land of Kings”—he found a city “airy, unreal, and fantastic as a dream, —stretching away in a seemingly endless perspective of latticed cupolas, domes, turrets, and jutting oriel-windows, rising tier above tier, at a dizzy height from the ground …”
In the making for more than eight years, Princes, Palaces, and Passion features artworks ranging from the early sixteenth century to the early twentieth century, borrowed from important museum and private collections in Great Britain, Australia, and the United States.
Now, for the first time outside India, this exhibition illuminates the brilliant artistic traditions of this legendary kingdom.
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Other current shows, events, lectures and exhibitions at the Asian Art Museum include:
Tibetan Thangka Painting
Himalayan Gallery Tours Led by the Museum Docents
Islamic Word Into Art by Venetia Porter
Jaisalmer Ayo! Gateway to the Gypsies: film screening & talk by filmaker Pepe Ozan
and finally, for the tea enthusiasts among us there is:
Workshop: The Way of Tea for Beginners
Learning the Tea Ceremony Saturday,
May 12, 2007 10:15 –12:00 pm,
Education Resource Room.
$5 members, $17 general (includes full museum admission)
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Asian Art Museum web site here
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