Sunday, February 15, 2009

Royal Paintings

This weekend I got to take a break from studying and head on over to the Seattle Asian Art Museum. Without knowing what we were getting into, we entered the special exhibition, "Garden and Cosmos: The Royal Paintings of Jodhpur".

Overview:

These crazy paintings that've been locked up in the maharajah's palace for like... ever... are touring for the first time in the good ol' U.S. of A. The paintings are mad detailed, about old maharajahs ballin' lifestyles, and religion and shit.

One of the maharajah's apparently wanted to document how much he liked women. Seriously. If this dude were alive today, he'd be a rapper because... You may have alotta bitches but he got much more. (umm so I don't feel like editing the photo, so you can just click it.)


There's basically a whole room of this dude ballin' it. Ho's in the water, ho's in the tent. Ho's behind screens, ho's dancing for him. Even the Washington Post told us about it:
Maharajah Bakhat Singh (1706-1752) reminds me of Hugh Hefner. He was mighty as a warrior and ruthless as a son (Bakhat became king after murdering his father), but you wouldn't know this from the art he commissioned. He doesn't ride or hunt. What Bakhat does is party, party all the time.
There were four or five other rooms, but I'd have to say they weren't as hilarious, so I'm not going to talk about them.

People say this exhibit is good, and I'd have to agree with them. I mean, everything's really, really detailed. Like, each one of those hundreds of girls' skirts has a different pattern on them. And they have gold paint all over the place. Grillz, old school style.

But if you want the $40 exhibition book from the gift store, you'll have to wait til next week. They sold out in one day... Dayamnnn.