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Yong
Soon Min
This Buddha embodies
an inspiring synthesis of sensuality and serenity. It is endowed
with many subtle, quiet qualities: simplicity, grace, and a disarming
delicacy of expression and form. Sinuous, curvilinear forms repeat
throughout the piece to create a harmonious whole. The Buddha also
appears youthful and sensuous, even feminine with his full lips
and the firm roundness of the body. And yet in his clarity and simplicity
of definition, absent of any severity or stiffness in the pose,
this Buddha emanates a powerful sense of repose and serenity. He
would even seem to be suspended, floating, enhanced by the sandstone's
lightness of hue, if not for the anchor of the mandorla and the
base.
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India, Uttar Pradesh, Sarnath area