With regards to craftsmanship and legacy, the Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit at Kalady is a money box. In the year 1995, when the college was set up, craftsman J R Palakkal was appointed to paint a progression of pictures dependent on the life of Adi Sankaracharya. The artworks that number around 33 will be put in plain view at the Art and Mind Gallery at Paravur as a piece of ‘Sree Sankara 2019’.
The display will start on July 20 (Saturday) at 4 pm, said Saju Thuruthil, top of the office, Department of Fine Arts, Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit(SSUS), Kalady. As indicated by him, the artworks had been lying ignored for a serious long time. “The disregard combined with harm brought about by the flood disintegrated the state of the once delightful artworks,” he said.
“Because of the clamminess, dark form secured the artistic creations and they had swell out. The hues also had been influenced with discolouration setting in,” he said. He was depended with the synthetic rebuilding of the compositions since he is a confirmed workmanship conservator and restorer. “I had the option to take the canvases back to about the first status,” he said.
“These are entirely significant works. The compositions track different achievements in the life of Adi Sankaracharya,” he said. The arrangement starts with the Sankaracharya’s folks showing up in Kalady. “There is one that shows his folks crossing the stream on a wooden scaffold. The following in the arrangement shows the introduction of Adi Sankara and closures with a canvas of him accomplishing ‘Sarvanjapeedam’,” said Saju. The canvases are done in the Raja Ravi Varma style and remain comparable to those done by the European experts, he included.
As indicated by him, artworks of this standard can never be seen anyplace else. “The dynamic quality of the hues, the way wherein the articulations have been gotten adjacent to the very reality that such a wonderful chronicling of Sankaracharya’s life has been once in a while done makes the show worth review,” he said. Alongside the presentation, a one-day class on ‘Darshanam, Vedantam, Manavikata’ will be held. The discussion will be given by P V Ramankutty, visiting staff, SSUS.
