TANTRIC ARTWORK
[MANGAL, Joshi - Original Artwork] Outsider Tantric Folk Art - Image of a Severed Head of a Goddess with Severed Arms and Legs [#190]
[MANGAL, Joshi - Original Artwork] Outsider Tantric Folk Art - Image of a Severed Head of a Goddess with Severed Arms and Legs [#190]
Kishangarh, Rajasthan: no date (modern). [#190] Gouache painting on recycled paper. This image shows the severed head, severed arms and severed legs of a goddess. 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. There is a paint stain to right margin, just creeping into image area. Pieces of reinforcement tape to reverse of image. 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.