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Jamini Roy
Accession No . 3054
Artist Name. Jamini Roy
Title. Prizes with a Printed Strip
Medium. Pen and ink on paper
Size. 19 x 12.5 cm
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The sketches and drawings of Jamini Roy point to the artist’s imagination that grapples with manifest details of a visual idea for a painting. It is from the sketches and drawings that we see the artist’s diverse experiments with form. The imagery was drawn from village life. He painted from folk tales and narratives that permeated the rural consciousness. in this particular sketch the space is divided into four parts. The topmost part shows the feast for a large group of people. The middle panel shows the Egyptian tale. The side panel shows a figure and the bottom panel shows the procession of a king. Rendered with the fluid, fine lines of pen and ink in an idiom inspired by the folk art of the Bengal region.The space division of this pastoral scene is inspired by the concept of space division in the vertical scroll paintings of Bengal and the narrative modes used in the temple friezes of the region.
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