Art Description
The painting is inspired by Serkyem offering, ‘ser’ means golden and ‘kyem’ means beverage. In Vajrayana Buddhism practitioners of the past developed this ritual offering to the Dharma protectors to request for swift assistance to overcome obstacles and problems. Hence, the ritual has become popular among modern practitioners who seek such assistance.The warrior woman who is holding a chalice and a basin represents a Dharma practitioner and the deity represents the protector.
Artwork Specification
Title: Ritual
Year: 2019
Dimension: 178×230 cm
Medium: Acrylic
Price: Nu. 6,50,000/-
About the Artist
The concept of our work is directly inspired by Vajrayana Buddhism, Shamanism and the tangible and intangible culture of Bhutan. (The tangible cultural aspects like paintings, sculptures and temples. Intangible culture like knowledge, wisdom and skills.) We try to convey these concepts through the use of traditional icons and symbols, combined with realistic or semi-realistic human portraits. Humans symbolise the innate warrior spirit that we all possess. By recognizing the basic goodness or the awakened nature of our ordinary mind, we become warriors to battle our psychological and physical obstacles in our mundane lives.
The style of our work is a fusion of figurative/ portrait with spiritual symbols and colorful abstract background. The use of different colors also represents the psychedelic trance of meditation and visualisation. We are inspired by Bhutanese traditional art but we paint in western contemporary style. We mostly use oil and acrylic on cotton canvas. We are fascinated by the wisdom and skills that Buddhism uses to teach how to understand the nature of mind, the concept of non duality, relative truth and ultimate truth, etc. One way or the other we try to convey the messages symbolically even though confused beings like us can only understand it intellectually.
Artists we venerate are Leonardo da vinci, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Gustave Klimt, Edgar Maxence, Jean Delville, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Bouguereau, Claude Monet, Hokusai and Yoshitoshi for their technical skills and their idealistic movement in art.
Before we adopted this concept and style of painting a few years ago, we did realism pop art, book illustrations and a few landscape paintings for commercial and private commissions.
Born 1988, from Sarpang
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