Ginne Sagar, an instructor in traditional painting at the Sri Venkateswara Institute of Traditional Sculpture and Architecture, has created large portraits of the ten manifestations of Lord Vishnu, known as Dasavatharam, using Pointillism. Each portrait measures 4 ft x 2.5 ft and is composed of tens of thousands of colourful dots. Sagar, who specializes in Pointillism, started this art form in 1984 with black and white images and later shifted to using colour refills and canvas. The Dasavathara images adhere to the measurements and style specified in the traditional Indian sculpture, Shilpa Shastra. Sagar spent 45 days on each of the ten images, using golden yellow, ochre yellow, and brown pens.