Bala-Krishna. Depicting Krishna beautifully is to start on the wrong footing. Krishna is experience. One must key him manifest, not labour with mind to make a "beautiful" picture.
However he decides to come, he is bound to be delightful. Isn't that why he is Vasudeva?
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I think it depends on the state of mind or being that you are in. You were obviously in a a euphoric though tranquil one.
For us Krishna is so charged with meaning, resonance that like you said the form in which he is depicted is relative. It is obviously not the same for someone from another culture who would respond to an exquisite stone carving of Krishna in the Ranganathan temple for example, nuch more enthusiastically than a blue Krishna with pink palms painted on the back of a truck.I personally find these reproductions delightful.But as I said it's part of being Indian. I payed with clay idols of Krishna as a child. But I am equqlly attrected to clay statues of Virgin Mary clad in blue, her bent head draped in a white veil.
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