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    Nandalal Bose

    A Sketch from Album No. 43 8058 Nandalal Bose Ink on postcard

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Nandalal mastered the Sino-Japanese techniques of painting being first influenced by Okakura Kakuzo and the train of Japanese artists who visited India after him, especially Arai Kempo. Painting in the same style, here he has rendered the backdrop in light tints of black and added grey patches to give an impression of black clouds above the mountains. As Jaya Appasamy writes in her essay, 'Nandalal- Master Draughtsman' in the book 'Nandalal Bose (1882-1966) Centenary Exhibition', 'In the drawings the background is left bare and the brush strokes, dark and light build up a tonal picture. The unfinished wet quality of some of these works is part of the idiom.'
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