"Guru Brahma, Guru Vishnu,
Guru Deva Maheshwara,
Guru Saksha Param Brahma,
Tasmai Sri Gurave Namaha"
Meaning:
The teacher is creator Brahma; he is preserver Vishnu; he is also the destroyer Siva and he is the source of the Absolute. I offer all my efforts to that great teacher.
Once we reached Siddipet during our journey, the first stop was at Dr. Kapu Rajaiah's house and art gallery (Kala Bhavan, Siddipet) whom I know as my illustrious Father's teacher and an internationally renowned and acclaimed Folk artist - an artist par excellence. Just googling him threw up a whopping number of pages and sites dedicated to the great artist.
I may not be qualified enough to write about this great artist but pictures are worth a thousand words. Here are some of the many awards and felicitations given to Dr. Rajaiah adorning the walls of his home.
The latest addition to his enviable list of awards includes "Prathibha Rajiv Puraskaram" for the year 2010 from the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh State, India.
The great master who is in the autumn of his life was more than happy for the visit by one of his innumerable accomplished disciples.
The art gallery (Kala Bhavan) which hosts his paintings and doubles up as a museum and his work place was started in the year 1985.
Most of his works concentrate on the rustic, pastoral life and simple village folk.
A painting depicting Lord Krishna with Gopikas in Brindavanam.
Paintings illustrating India's "Unity in Diversity".
An award winning painting?
A Shiva Linga.
Dancing girl during festival in Village (?) and other paintings.
Farmers at work with sickles.
Some more paintings. Toddy collectors climbing on to the palm trees.
More paintings including the one where women folk and an old man is waiting for a bus at a village bus stand.
Some more paintings
And, some more including the one depicting "Seven Hills" (the abode of Lord Venkateshwara in Tirumala)
Some more including a "Cat peeping through a broken wall" and a "woman feeding a baby".
A painting of Maa Kaali (also known as Goddess Durga)
Last but one is the painting called "Deft Fingers" depicting process of preparing warp yarn which is a part of the weaving process on handloom where yarn is weaved into a beautiful Sari.
My father added this laminated print of the painting to our home collection as we belong to the Weavers Community.
And the last of the paintings is an unfinished painting on which work is in progress.
Before leaving it is time for a picture with the caretakers of the Art Gallery.
Then a quick stop for a get together with the extended family followed by early Dinner and then journey back to Hyderabad.
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