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    Figure Carving: The Ethnic Style
    Figure Carving: The Ethnic Style
    Figure Carving: The Ethnic Style
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    Figure Carving: The Ethnic Style

    By Dr.King

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    This book opens up a new world of figure carving options for carving enthusiasts. It provides an unlimited number of options not only in style but also in techniques backed by detailed illustrations. Add an altogether new dimension to your carving repertoire.
    See http://doctor-king-online.blogspot.com/2015/09/my-new-book-on-figure-carving.html for details

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDr.King
    Release dateNov 19, 2015
    ISBN9781311377142
    Figure Carving: The Ethnic Style
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    Dr.King

    Dr.King is an avid writer in the nonfictional category. In the past 3 decades he has written several books in the areas of philosophy, Yoga, religious practices, sculpture, gardening, and so on. His books often blend scientific outlook with traditional faiths and practices. His books especially in the area of ancient philosophy succinctly showcase volumes of ancient literature in a condensed form, providing very authentic, insightful and unbiased portrayal. These books are generally characterized as thought provoking, giving an incisive look at the otherwise difficult to understand topics. One can expect to find reliable information, devoid of glorification and hype that is typical in this category.

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      Figure Carving - Dr.King

      F:\my_books\amazon\am_ancient_wisdom\cover_design\cover_logo_old.jpg The inspiration to write this book is my recent visit to a remote village that seemed to be a relic from a bygone era. In a way, it opened the doors to a magical world of figure carving. So it is only apt to begin this book with this memorable visit.

      It was a small south Indian village well known for its carving tradition. Carvings made in this little village have gone all over the world and it hosts some of the world’s largest monoliths. The village can better be called a big sculpture factory – almost every block has either a carver, or a carving school or a carving workshop! Wherever you look around, you can see a sculptor busy in action. The entire village is surrounded by black granite hills out of which most of the sculptures are carved. The village is rightly called ‘the black stone’ (Karikal) village.

      As per the ancient Indian sculpture manuals – the ‘Silpa Sästras’ as they are called, figures carved out of black granite are the most suited for worship in temples. Though one sees mostly white marble figures in northern India, the south is black granite dominated. The particular variety of granite that is available in this village is relatively soft, fine grained and takes good mirror like polish. More than the Silpa Sästra, it is probably the easy availability of the stone and workability that have motivated the local carvers to select this stone.

      My meeting with a master sculptor

      I first visited the house of a well known sculptor. He is second in the generation of sculptors, whose father had several master pieces to his credit.  An almost 40ft tall - monolith carved under his guidance is installed in a nearby village. Another giant monolith of Buddha has been installed in Japan few years ago. Of course, given the size, the giant statue had to be sliced into manageable pieces, transported, and once again re-assembled in Japan.

      Unlike in the west, carving in India is a family tradition running from generation to generation. There are particular castes that specialize in carving. The boys born in this caste are trained in carving right from their childhood. Actually, they are never formally trained; they just pick it up from their elders who carve for a livelihood. Or it may not be wrong to say that carving flows in their genes!

      Visit to a carving factory

      I was led to the ‘carving factory’ attached to the house of the master sculptor. I am calling it a factory because the carving in these places is done almost like in an assembly line of an automobile factory! Carving is done stage by stage by different experts each specializing in a particular discipline.

      First the master carver draws a rough sketch of the intended figure on the raw stone cut for the purpose. Next a sculptor who specializes in roughing works on it for several months depending on the size of the figure. He then passes it on to next guy who specializes in detailing. At this stage, different sculptors who specialize in different parts of the body would work on respective part – some on face, some on torso, and some on ornamentation and so on. After detailing, another set of specialists would rub and polish the figure. Finally, a coat of special oil based pigment is applied to the figure and the figure is ready for shipping!

      Unfortunately, the day I visited this factory was a Sunday and there were very few carvers on duty. I met an old man – Kandasämi - who has been working for past 3 decades in this factory as a ‘rough carver’. The poor fellow could speak and understand only his mother tongue which was Greek and Latin to me! But as they say, art has no language barriers and surprisingly after sometime, both of us were communicating with each other without much problem and I gathered lot of information about their tradition of sculpting.

      Kandasämi told me that normally he spends two to three months on a figure of say 3ft tall – to chisel the stone into a rough resemblance of the final figure. When I asked him why he does not use modern electrical tools to cut and shape

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