The Genesha Elephant

For this art experience assignment I visited Emory University’s Michael C. Carlos Museum in Atlanta, Georgia on October 16, 2015. He featured several exhibits, but my focus was on the Asian Gallery. My art of focus is the Genesha Elephant, the symbol of Buddhism, displaying October 10, 015 – January 3, 2016. The Red Clay sculpture was created in 2012 and given as a gift by Joanne, and Charles Ackeman, and Merry and Chris Carlos.
During this art experience essay, I will expound on the highly complex domain of a distinct of South Asia, centering on the subcontinent of India and its highly complex world, and one of its most powerful animals that symbolizes a religion. This animal is revered as one of the most powerful illustrations of a religion know to man not just in Asia but all over the world. The Ganesha Elephant is the most recognized by all of the Hindu and Buddhist arts, along with the religion of Buddhism, Ganesha is viewed as the God Of Success and the destroyer of evils and obstacles. …show more content…
His birth is seen as a miraculous event as it was predicted by Brahmin that he would grow into a person of great importance. According to legend, his mother dreamed that the Buddha would take the form of a white elephant and entered her womb, and she ceased to have any wish for sex. Although his mother had previously given birth to other children, it was regarded with a loose sense a virgin birth, as no sexual act was performed to conceive the child. This event depicts a very similar story of the birth of Jesus Christ. In contrast, however, Jesus was born in Bethlehem to a virgin called Mary, chosen by God to birth his son in a