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Jamini Roy
Accession No . 3095
Artist Name. Jamini Roy
Title. Christ
Medium. Pencil, pen & ink on paper
Size. 6.5 x 15 cm, 6.5 x 12.5 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. In this particular drawing, probably preparatory sketches for a more elaborate work, the artist has depicted the figure of Christ in a frontal stance. The strong contour lines simplify the form of the figure to its bare essentials. Jamini Roy narrated episodes from Christian mythology in a way that could communicate itself easily to the ordinary Bengali villager.
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