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Jamini Roy
Accession No . 3148
Artist Name. Jamini Roy
Title. Kirtan
Medium. Tempera on cloth
Size. 92 x 69 cm
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From the end 1920s, Jamini Roy 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. He represented in his paintings what they held sacred. He painted from folk tales and narratives that permeated the rural consciousness. His return to his rural roots was prompted by an ideal of organic beauty that he had experienced in the village of his birth, Beliatore in the district of Bankura in West Bengal.
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