Kashmir Art and Literature: The inspiration for the creation of the arts and crafts of Kashmir is the paradisiacal land of Kashmir in its physical and metaphysical meaning and expression. The artistic genius of the Kashmiri people as expressed in the fields of literature, poetry, literary images, shawl-making, embroidery, embroidered floor-coverings, wood-work and wood-carving, papier-mache and metal-work has been studied by the author, in the beauty of their composition, history, making and design movement. The arts and crafts of Kashmir testify to the Kashmiri artist being a true lover of nature. Nature is reflected in the polished mirror of the designs and decorative patterns of ornamentation of the Kashmiri arts. Poetry in form to reach the realm of thought, idea, dream and vision that shows joy in this world as the world is joyful in Him. This can be understood through the analogy of the traditional carpet being the earthly reflection of the cosmos itself. Therefore it follows that it is an indication, suggestion, or expression of the mirror image of the manifestation in worldly, material, mortal and whatsoever possible in non-spiritual world or the secular world the space, universe or the heavens above, which are divine and sacred. To sit upon it is to be located within a secluded precinct protected by its borders, of the composition of the universe of the art work, and often looking inward toward the centre where all the patterns meet as in a whirl-pool, which draws inward whatever revolves or is submitted or made to revolve around it and hence celebrating creation itself as embodied in the sound and the harmony of the expression.
Posted on: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 11:44:47 +0000
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