• NGMA India

    Nandalal Bose

    A Sketch from Album No. 62 8618 Nandalal Bose Watercolour 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 Kampo. The blurring of the linear outlines of the figures and the harmonious dilution of the colours were techniques Nandalal acquired from the arts of the Far East. The technique of modulating the ink tones from darker through lighter to obtain a variety of shades from near white, through grey tones to blacks was mastered and implemented in several of his works. Nandalal makes use of this style for execution of this monochromatic landscape depicting the contoured form of trees along a path through which a group of people can be seen passing by.