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Jamini Roy
Accession No . 3086
Artist Name. Jamini Roy
Title. Charkha
Medium. Pencil on paper
Size. 10.2 x 6.8 cm
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It is interesting to see from the hundreds of sketches and drawings in the NGMA collection, how Roy broke down the figure to the essential form that goes into its making and then synthesised it to suggest a structure. From the end 1920s, Jamini Roy rejected the European oil medium and began to use traditional pigments from vegetable and mineral sources. And the imagery was drawn from village life. He invested the peasants, artisans, followers of religious cults, village women and adivasis with immense dignity and represented in his paintings what they held sacred. He also painted from folk tales and narratives that permeated the rural consciousness. This sketch with pencil on paper shows a seated figure spinning yarn on a spinning wheel.
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