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[MANGAL, Joshi - Original Artwork] Outsider Tantric Folk Art - Image of a Large Male Face in Circular Form [Image #025]
[MANGAL, Joshi - Original Artwork] Outsider Tantric Folk Art - Image of a Large Male Face in Circular Form [Image #025]
Kishangarh, Rajasthan: no date (modern). [#025] Gouache painting on recycled paper. This image shows a large face of a man in a circular form which may have represent the sun or have some other astrological significance. In the background are what appear to be words or phrases in Devangari script, possibly more decorative than textual. The size of this image is approximately 8 x 12 inches including margins. A few paint marks/spots and short wrinkles to margins. Very good.
Joshi Mangal is a painter from Kishangarh in Rajasthan (India). His body of work is based on the artistic styles found in bazaars in his community and inflected by his idiosyncratic taste for sensational images of tantric art. He paints images of tantric goddesses, circular yantra designs, astrological images, various body parts used for divination (hands and feet), and more.
