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Jamini Roy
Accession No . 3164
Artist Name. Jamini Roy
Title. Offering
Medium. Tempera on cloth
Size. 79 x 173 cm
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This painting is an evocative image of a rural community. Jamini Roy has beautifully represented in many of his paintings the sect of the Vaishnavas, the followers of Krishna as either making offerings to the lord or on the way to a temple in a procession or going around villages singing kirtans (devotional songs) on the life of Krishna, and seeking alms. It is interesting to see how Roy broke down the figure to the essential form that goes into its making and then synthesised it to suggest a structure. Jamini Roy drew imagery that was authentic using simplification of form inspired by the folk arts of the region that had evolved over the centuries. The artist has adopted the tribhanga or the bent axis from the traditional iconography in the representation of the figure. The garland and the wind instrument in his left hand is suggestive of the reverential demeanour of the figure. Roy conveys a sense of an idyll where faith, religion and spirituality create an organic wholeness in life.
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