Pointillist painting of Venkateswara and Padmavathi to adorn redeveloped Tirumala museum

The painstaking effort behind creating an image of Lord Venkateswara and Goddess Padmavathi using tens of thousands of colourful dots is palpable in the final work.

Ginne Venkateswarlu, an associate lecturer in the Department of Painting at the TTD-run Sri Venkateswara Institute of Traditional Sculpture and Architecture (SVITSA), Tirupati, who paints under the pen name ‘Ginne Sagar’, has drawn the images of the divine couple on canvas in the pointillist technique, in which an image is built up from numerous dots.

The painting is to adorn the walls of the Sri Venkateswara Museum at Tirumala, which is being redeveloped by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) over 1.2 lakh sq. ft with 14 interactive galleries on Tirumala’s history, spirituality and architecture.