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Ravana's Palace Burning by Carol Summers
Ravana's Palace Burning
Carol Summers
Title
Ravana's Palace Burning
Artist
Carol Summers
1925 - 2016 (biography)Year
1984
Technique
color woodcut
Image Size
24 3/8 x 37 1/8"
Signature
pencil signed within image, mid right
Edition Size
96 of 125
Annotations
pencil titled and editioned within image, before signature
Reference
Barnett 183
Paper
fibrous laid
State
published
Publisher
artist
Inventory ID
8609
Price
$1,800.00
Description
Ravana is a ten-headed demon god of Hindu mythology, king of the island of Lanka and a devout follower of Shiva. He kidnapped the wife of Prince Rama, Sita, and held her prisoner in a garden in his palace on the island of Lanka. Rama would wage a battle against Ravana and Rama's companion, the god Hanuman, would burn down the palace, allowing Rama to slay the demon king and rescue Sita.
In his signature style, Carol Summers interprets this portion of the Hindu epic through a lens of vivid imagination: saturated color and large, exaggerated forms that soften as the inks are absorbed by the fibrous paper. The image is exultant and celebratory, a visual homage to triumph of good over evil.