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The Artist Project

The Artist Project: Nalini Malani

Artist Nalini Malani reflects on Hanuman Bearing the Mountaintop with Medicinal Herbs in this episode of The Artist Project.
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From March 2015 to June 2016, we invited 120 artists—local, national, and global—to choose individual works of art or galleries that sparked their imaginations. In this online series, artists reflect on what art is, what inspires them from across 5,000 years of art, and in so doing, they reveal the power of a museum and The Met.

"I'm attracted to the myths because, for me, it's a language to link with people."

Artist Nalini Malani reflects on "Hanuman Bearing the Mountaintop with Medicinal Herbs" in this episode of The Artist Project—an online series in which artists respond to works of art in The Met collection.

About the Artist
Nalini Malani, born in 1946, is an Indian painter and multimedia installation artist.

Nalini Malani (Indian, born 1946)

Gamepieces, 2003-2009

Four-channel video (color, sound), six acrylic reverse-painted Lexan cylinders. The Museum of Modern Art, Gift of the Richard J. Massey Foundation for Arts and Sciences (199.2007) © 2015 Nalini Malani

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Hanuman Bearing the Mountaintop with Medicinal Herbs, Ink and opaque watercolor on cloth, India (Rajasthan)
Hanuman Bearing the Mountaintop with Medicinal Herbs
India (Rajasthan)
ca. 1800