Princess (Bhairavi Ragini) and her attendant visiting a Shiva shrine
| Support Type: | Paper |
| Paint Type: | Gouache |
| Current Location: | Maggs Bros., London, 1965 |
The miniature painting constructed devotion as a intensely private visual experience portraying the female figures within a nocturnal field with limited illumination. Its composition syntax privileges hierarchical recession rather than naturalistic depth thus calibrating negative space in order to direct attention to the ritual center. Fateh chand deployed linearity with attenuated proportions to make Bhairavi Ragini and her attendant vibrant. He showed them doing arti infront of a white shiv lingam shrine in the noght time to make it look like a private affair. It is also believed that Bhairavi in this painting is a manifestation of deity Parvati the consort of Lord Shiva. Overall this painting transforms Musical Rasa into a iconograph with aesthetic stimulations and contemplative quieutude.
