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    Nandalal Bose

    A Sketch from Album No. 71 8851 Nandalal Bose Pen & Ink on postcard

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Nandalal in his book vision and creation devotes a section where he describes the depiction of animals, and writes, 'Each creature has a basic spinal rhythm following its characteristic nature....A certain kind of movement or rhythm finds expression in the body of an animal following each emotional impulse, and this becomes for us its characteristic gesture....these body rhythms are based on the structure of the backbone, and this is seen most clearly from the side. The bosy's mass, structure and volume should be studied in relation with this life rhythm; it controls them and, in turn, is controlled by them'. This earnest drawing is the portrayal of the dog resting and is executed in fluid calligraphic style lines.
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