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Masks depicting Emotions
| Content Provider | IGNCA - Man and Mask |
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| Description | There is a range of emotional states that lies in the hidden recesses of our psyche. These states are both spontaneously and strategically expressed through body language and facial expression. Though the rules governing emotional displays and the situations that elicit them vary from place to place, these displays themselves have been found to be remarkably similar around the world. Masks frequently are designed to convey and exaggerate these emotional displays, accommodating every shade of human emotion, however appealing or grotesque. Love and hate, anger and fury, joy and sadness, fear and disgust, feelings of ebullience and heroism, sublime beatitude and peace – and transitional expressions that combine such primary emotional displays – have all been vividly represented through masks. Although the whole body language changes and transforms during intense emotional experience, the face is the prime locus of involuntary responses and mirrors the intensity of our experience. Thus, drooping eyelids and mouth give a vulnerable look of sadness; steaming anger and fury is expressed by a glaring eyes, a flushed face, and crinkled brow; a smiling countenance and wide gaping mouth are signs of joy and ebullience; meditative eyes and an unperturbed mouth may indicate a state of equanimity. Masks stylize these emotional displays, and, in the process, aid in the creation of characters and typologies. |
| File Format | HTM / HTML |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Abhinavagupta Ancient Human Practice Anthropology Anthropomorphic Art Work Art History Bharatamuni Ceremonies and Practices Decorative Mask Disguise Drama Theraphy Emotive mask Museum Object Natyashastra Ornamentation Performance Performing Art Ritual Mask Sculpture Seraikella Chhau Masks |
| Content Type | Image Text |
| Resource Type | Visual Artwork |
