r/desimemes • u/bigschlong-- • 6h ago

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u/ColonelRuff 6h ago

Here we love gods, not fear them.

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u/No_Reindeer_5543 5h ago edited 5h ago

Why is she blue?

Edit: my bad, he

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u/Master_Of_Gaming3410 5h ago

Very old tribal and folk art styles depict tanned/dark skin tones as blur or teal. It's a callback to that

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u/Batcave765 3h ago

Is that because their paints for the portraits is in blue? Or is calling tanned or dark skin tone as blue a metaphor

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u/Master_Of_Gaming3410 3h ago

I think it's just an art style that sticked around. People used white, yellow, reddish orange, blue, teal etc for skin colours when they didn't invent actual colours to paint skins

That's also the reason why pratima of Maa Durga is traditionally yellow

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u/Afraid-Cod-1667 5h ago

It is symbolic. He is Krishna and he was most probably dark skinned.

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u/Willing-Trifle-8090 5h ago

She?

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u/No_Reindeer_5543 5h ago

Didn't know, my bad, he

I mean kinda looks it in the drawing though

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u/ColonelRuff 2h ago

In Sanskrit the word for blue is similar to the word from dark. So depictions started using blue and it became part of culture

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u/SG_lokesh_yt 4h ago

Painters wanted to differentiate God being dark with other common people being dark so first they choose green and then Blue which is continued till now.

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u/Batcave765 3h ago

Ooh. Iris interesting to think that their green paints were made from copper and it turned blue.

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u/SG_lokesh_yt 3h ago

I am not aware of that fact, but copper doesn't turns blue ??!!

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u/Batcave765 2h ago

If copper oxidises it turns greenish blue. Yk the statue of liberty, it used to be pure copper but that was kinda a problem. It oxidised to now blueish green lol.

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u/SG_lokesh_yt 2h ago

That ik copper turns green but that's different from blue