TANTRIC ARTWORK
[MANGAL, Joshi - Original Artwork] Outsider Tantric Folk Art - Image of a Spotted Severed Goddess Head Spitting Blood into a Bowl [#173]
[MANGAL, Joshi - Original Artwork] Outsider Tantric Folk Art - Image of a Spotted Severed Goddess Head Spitting Blood into a Bowl [#173]
Kishangarh, Rajasthan: no date (modern). [#173] Gouache painting on recycled paper. This image shows a severed goddess head with spotted face, spitting blood into a bowl. 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 9 x 9 inches including margins. Corner chip and edge wear on margins, several pieces of reinforcement tape to back 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.

