You will find a wide ranging collection of Shiva paintings. Shiva is one of the three Hindu Gods comprising the Trimurti. Shiva has Parvati as his consort and is also depicted in Hindu paintings as Ardhanareshwara and Nataraja. His divine vehicle nandi is also depicted along side Shiva in Shiva Paintings.
...nations all over the world have a cultural past, which is inseparably linked to masks making them a universal phenomenon... The Mask forms a silent language which is universally understood and which defines the essence of human expressions and emotions at various levels - spiritual, religious and material... When not trapped in the stereotypes of being "hypocritical guises" or "camouflaged farces", masks reflect the innocence of the primitive people of the world... Masks can be thought of as having been created by our ancestors to form a bridge between the outer phenomenal world and the inner person…
