Abstract Tantric paintings based on 17th-century illustrations from Indian religious texts. These contemporary, anonymous drawings from Rajasthan are unlike the more familiar strands of Tantric art—the geometric yantras, or erotic illustrations of the Kama Sutra. The progeny of seventeenth-century illustrated religious treatises, these drawings have evolved into a distinct visual lexicon designed to awaken heightened states of consciousness and are imbued with specific spiritual meanings (e.g. spirals and arrows for energy, an inverted triangle for Shakti)…

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Abstract Tantric paintings based on 17th-century illustrations from Indian religious texts.

These contemporary, anonymous drawings from Rajasthan are unlike the more familiar strands of Tantric art—the geometric yantras, or erotic illustrations of the Kama Sutra. The progeny of seventeenth-century illustrated religious treatises, these drawings have evolved into a distinct visual lexicon designed to awaken heightened states of consciousness and are imbued with specific spiritual meanings (e.g. spirals and arrows for energy, an inverted triangle for Shakti)…

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