Banner of Peace By Chander P Mahajan The Roerichs, father & son, lived in India at a time when political, social & cultural upheavals were being engineered. They believed in replacing Western influence into a romantic indigenous style from the past traditions. ‘Let us always strive towards the beautiful’ was their pursuit. Art galleries at Naggar (Kullu) & Bangalore (Karnatka) are their creations.
N. Roerich Banner of Peace, 1931
Nicholas Roerich was Russian by birth, but universal by inclination who firmly believed “It is beauty that will save the world”. He had created in a few years, a vast body of work that contained in the form of paintings a new vision: drenched in color landscapes, sweeping Himalayan vistas, jagged mountain peaks piercing the sky, everything bathed in mysterious light. Svetosav Roerich, the younger son of eminent artist & scholar Nicholas Roerich, had from the young age shown great talent of a brilliant portraitist with a unique ability to penetrate in to the inner world of people. He was a painter in the manner of his father, yet had held his own individuality and uniqueness because of which his paintings are known as ‘Yoga of Beauty’. His Himalayan landscapes, designed in monumental systems open a fantastic world almost unbelievable to one who has never seen them himself.