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    Nandalal Bose

    A Sketch from Album No. 64 8664 Nandalal Bose Watercolour on postcard

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Nandalal also 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 figures and the harmonious dilution of colours were techniques Nandalal acquired from the arts of the Far East. The technique of modulating ink tones from darker through lighter to obtain a variety of shadings from near white, through grey tones to blacks was mastered and implemented in several of his works. In this particular postcard, Nandalal uses a series of diverse tones and brush strokes in the same Sino- Japanese fashion to render this abstracted landscape. Some parallel brushstrokes suggest water flowing in a stream while blots and dabs of black colour give the impression of bushes.
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