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Dimensions and Pricing
| Painting Orientation - Portrait | Small | Medium | Large | Grand |
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| Artist Signed Premium Canvas - Limited Edition (150 Prints) |
36'' x 24'' $295 |
39'' x 26'' $375 |
45'' x 30'' $450 |
57'' x 38'' $650 |
| Textured Water Colour - Giclee Fine Art Print |
30'' x 20'' $145 |
39'' x 26'' $229 |
45'' x 30'' $289 |
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| Enhanced Matte - Giclee Fine Art Print |
30'' x 20'' $59 |
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*All sizes are in inches. Prices are in Canadian Dollars.
Print Types
Canvas Prints
Giclee prints on 100% cotton Canvas offers museum quality prints which produce vibrant colours to look like an original oil painting. The Limited Edition Canvas prints are hand-signed by the artist and are part of a Limited Edition series. Please click here for more information on Canvas Prints.
Textured Water Colour Prints
Giclee prints on Hahnemuhle William Turner an acid-free 100% cotton water color paper with luxurious weight that delivers museum quality appearance. Please click here for more information on Water Colour Prints.
Enhanced Matte Print
Fine Art Prints on Epson Enhanced Matte Paper is an un-textured bright, white paper which yields highly saturated images for a 'painterly' look. Please click here for more information on Water Colour Prints.
Painting Description
Guru Hargobind became the Guru of the Sikhs at the age of eleven after his father Guru Arjan was martyered on the orders of the mughal emporer in Jahangir. Guru Arjan forsaw the need for change in the Sikh panth. Guru Ajran’s last message to his son was, “Sit fully armed on his throne and maintain an army.” The martyrdom of Guru Arjan was a turning point for the Sikhs and Guru Hargobind became the embodiment of that change. At the ceremony of his ascension, Guru Hargobind declared his intensions by adorning his turban with a soverign’s aigrette in place of the holy man’s seli. He wore two swords representing Miri and Piri, to declare his temporal and spiritual authority.
Guru Hargobind began construction of the Akal Takhat in 1663 with his own hands, and only Baba Buddha and Bhai Gurdas assisted him in this task. The original takhat was a platform upon which Guru Hargobind would sit in the presence of the Sikh congregation and from which the spiritual and temporal concerns of the Sikh people could be addressed. The Guru built the Akal Takhat to serve the panth for eternity and as the seat of the sovereignty of the Sikh nation it has withstood the assaults of many would-be rulers of the subcontinent who have come and gone.
In recent times, it bore the Indian government's assault on the Golden Temple - the Durbar Sahib - of Amritsar in June 1984, during the Gurpurab of Guru Arjan's Martyrdom. This tragedy and the anti-Sikh pogroms, all in 1984 - as well as the ongoing brutalities by the Indian military across the Punjab countryside in the years that followed - have collectively gone down in history as, The Third Sikh Ghallughara/ Holocaust. From such tragedies has blossomed the Sikh tradition of taking an implacable stand against injustice and the vagaries of tyrannical rulers, a new and lasting dimension, which was added to Sikhism’s sense of mission and purpose by Guru Hargobind.
