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[MANGAL, Joshi - Original Artwork]. Outsider Tantric Folk Art - Image of a Yantra Design Surrounded by Weapons and More [Image #053]
[MANGAL, Joshi - Original Artwork]. Outsider Tantric Folk Art - Image of a Yantra Design Surrounded by Weapons and More [Image #053]
Kishangarh, Rajasthan: no date (modern). [#053] Gouache painting on recycled paper. This image shows a decorative yantra with weapons and other devices surrounding it. 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 10 inches including margins. One tiny chip to lower right margin. Pieces of reinforcement tape and portion of a pencil drawing to reverse. 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.

