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Jamini Roy
Accession No . 3127
Artist Name. Jamini Roy
Title. Christ
Medium. Tempera on paper
Size. 27.8 x 40.2 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 for their grave, contemplative faces in somewhat hieratic poses with iconicity. In this particular painting the artist has depicted figure of Christ with a frontal gaze with thick black lines contouring the facial features. The top margin of the painting has a geometric motif in white colour. Jamini Roy narrated episodes from Christian mythology in a way that could communicate itself easily to the ordinary Bengali villager.
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