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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (July 13, 1978)
Indian art reflects Hindu period University museum displays Eastern deities By ERIC BENJAMIN SON Of the Emerald Recent years have spawned a surge of American interest in Eastern religions and cultures. This acknowledgement is strong enough to indicate that, contrary to Kipling, the East has indeed met the West. In accordance with this new spirit, the University Museum of Art currently is showing a collec tion of paintings and drawings en titled "The Hindu Pantheon,” on display in the students’ research gallery on the museum’s lower level. The 14 tempera paintings and one drawing are on loan to the museum from the private collec tion of Wayne and Vimala Begley of Iowa. Begley is teaching at the University this summer as the Maude I. Kerns visiting professor in Oriental Art. "The area of Indian art and cul ture is a neglected one," says Begley, a specialist in Indian art history. “The artworks of India are important not only as art alone, but are vital to an understanding of the entire Indian civilization." Each of the minutely detailed scenes portrays one or more of the many Hindu deities that form the complex “pantheon” of Hindu mythology, These numerous gods often affect various roles and in carnations, some depicted as be 1 [ I J nevolents in human guise or as horrific monsters in strange de monic shapes. But the mythological oddities are not as exotic as they may seem. For one thing, they’ve been around; their history stretches back 3000 continuous years to 1200 B.C., when the an cestors of the first Christians were still puttering about in their bronze age. For another, Hindu deities have close parallels in Greek, Roman and Teutonic mythology. 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Multiple deities flourished in the Indian tradition. The Hindu Panth eon, says Begley, has always been rather loosely organized. “There is a god for everything in Hinduism, even for smallpox,” he remarks. Despite this complexity, he says, the religious reality of the Hindus is quite simple. Most are monotheistic, believ ing in one supreme God who is i responsible for the creation, pre servation and destruction of the universe and all that it contains. The pantheon's confusion rep resents to the Hindu an “allegory on the complex nature of reality itself.” Nothing's too simple, and that applies to Hinduism as well as anything else. It would seem that there are two major deities, Vish nu and Siva, vying for the role of Supreme Being. But there has been a conspicuous lack of human bloodshed over the ongo ing controversy, and kudos for this fact go to the synthesizing efforts of the Hindu philosophers and the theologians. All of the paintings on display date from the 17th and 18th Cen turies, and were created by anonymous artists of the Rajput courts of Northern India. They were generally commissioned to serve as reminders of God’s in terests and activities in the world, Begley says. Begley is concerned with the works as an educational tool as well as for their aesthetic value. The exhibit was arranged in con junction with his summer term class on Indian painting. The display continues through August 13. The art museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, from noon until 5 p.m. -i BACKSTAGE Dancewear & Theatrical Supplies j SALE j 20% off | on all | Capezio j and f Danskin j Swimwear July 13 - 17. ★ i i 878 Pearl St. . Oregon's Complete Supplier IN JOY A CV? OP OUR TIKI ESPRESSX? WITH "YOUR TIZIA! VjE TEATURE: * ESPRESSO ROMANO •ClOeeotATA tantasia • CARE catte •CIoccolATA MOCA -CAPPUCJRO m fi .WQAPWAY, et/OKfCE. OREGON fvr/fctonce fhoatOdtr, or TVfcoOtrti Ehone: <«03) y4Z'3»6«>
