• NGMA India

    Nandalal Bose

    A Sketch from Album No. 79 9018 Nandalal Bose Watercolour on postcard

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Nandalal adept in the Chinese and Japanese brush techniques has in this monochromatic painting emphasised on the tonal variations of the black colour for a recognisable renderation of a farmer ploughing the fields with a pair of cattle. The artist with the fluid handling of the line in the far Eastern calligraphic style artist has evoked the lively sense of humour arising especially in the gait of the animals. Nandalal was indefatigable in his sketching routines which formed an adjunct part of his daily life. Making instantaneous visual records of anything amusing happening in his surroundings or of social events, or observing the demeanour and mannerisms of people, the cattle and observing intently the ways of nature was inspiring and a source of delight for Nandalal. His smaller sketches are testimony of Nandalal's keenness to observe and his empathy for the environment in which he lived.
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