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Jamini Roy
Accession No . 1105
Artist Name. Jamini Roy
Title. Sketch No. 7
Medium. Pen and ink on paper
Size. 6" x 4.5"
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The sketches and drawings of Jamini Roy point to the artist’s imagination that grapples with manifest details of a visual idea for a painting. It is from the sketches and drawings that we see the artist’s diverse experiments with form. The imagery was drawn from village life. He painted from folk tales and narratives that permeated the rural consciousness. In this particular sketch the space is divided into ten small drawings of either animal or human figure. This has been rendered with the fluid, fine lines of pen and ink in an idiom inspired by the folk art of the Bengal region. The space division of this pastoral scene is inspired by the concept of space division in the vertical scroll paintings of Bengal and the narrative modes used in the temple friezes of the region.
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