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    Nandalal Bose

    A Sketch from Album No. 63 8641 Nandalal Bose Pen & Ink on postcard

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Nandalal's exploration of the different ways of delineating a line allowed him to experiment in representation of lines in its varying forms adding rhythm, vigour and life to the form of the figures. The above pen and ink drawing shows a female figure carrying pitchers in her both hands. With coarse but fluid lines, Nandalal renders the woman's slender form, accentuating her bodily rhythm against a background of swirling bushes. Nandalal Bose in his book, 'On Art' has written- "Art is rhythm. For, idea, form, colour and movement attain to an aesthetic pitch solely through rhythm......It is the rhythm which unites indivisibly ends and means and materials; rules out all deviations from true purpose and waste of energy."
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