The Connoisseur

Artist: K Vishwanathan

Painting: Watercolour 

Dimensions: 24 inch X 24 inch 

Ayyanar Series:
Ayyanar is a guardian deity, who is believed to protect the villages in south India from all sorts of external threats, like natural calamities, wild animals, enemies, and epidemics. People believe that Ayyanar travels on his horse at midnights and hunts for bad people and miscreants. Perhaps because of this, people present white horses made of clay to him, when he answers their prayers.As the principal guardian deity, Ayyanar is tasked with the protection of the village. He also grants boons and ensures bountiful rain and harvests. Sitting astride his shining white stallion with a sword in hand, he is believed to fiercely fulfil his protective duty even today, patrolling his fiefdom each night.
This series is an imaginative work of the artist that depicts the guardian.

Keywords: Expressionism, Mythology, vivid

Artist Country: India