This show has been hyped all over Seattle, but for good reason, go while you can. You'll feel enlightened as you walk away, I promise.
"There must be a neuroscientific explanation for the pure pleasure of seeing these 17th-to-19th-century Indian paintings. Every tree is a fireworks display, a dendritic rush—the brain recognizing itself in the universe. Painted rivers glimmer gold and silver, seeming to move by you, playfully, as much as you move by them. The colors, opaque watercolors, are ecstatic. No wonder: They're made of lapis lazuli, malachite, vermilion, indigo plant, and the bright yellow urine of cows fed only mango leaves. Women, kings, gods, and animals appear in waves that reverberate across space. They dance, they chase each other, they give foot rubs, they swim, they consider their place in the cosmos, they fall in love. The eye simply registers joy." (Jen Graves) http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Event?event=964976
SAAM http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/visit/visitSAAM.asp
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