• NGMA India

    Nandalal Bose

    A Sketch from Album No. 63 8644 Nandalal Bose Ink on postcard

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The fluid handling of the line and their strong delineation was the influence of the Far Eastern art practices. Nandalal Bose understood the significance of the use of lines and experimented frequently in their execution from fine lines to being thick contouring lines and executed in a calligraphic fashion. In this particular postcard, Nandalal accentuates rhythm in the contoured form of a woman while using minimal calligraphic brush strokes. The woman, seated folding her knees is holding a bowl in one hand and a brush in another, is seen in a gesture of painting or drawing on a wall. 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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