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Jamini Roy
Accession No . 3057
Artist Name. Jamini Roy
Title. Christ
Medium. Pen and ink on paper
Size. 10.8 x 18 cm
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The series of images depicting the life of Jesus Christ is perhaps one of the boldest experiments in figuration and narrativisation by Jamini Roy. The language of the Christ paintings is remarkable as Roy invests the grave, contemplative faces in their somewhat hieratic poses with iconicity. This particular sketch is a preparatory study for the more detailed painting, Crucifixion. The artist has here depicted the figure of Christ along with a devotee. The strong sense of geometricity, that reduces the forms to their bare essentials is apparent in the composition. Jamini Roy narrated episodes from Christian mythology in a way that could communicate itself easily to the ordinary Bengali villager.
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