• NGMA India

    Nandalal Bose

    A Sketch from Album No. 84 9169 Nandalal Bose Pen & ink and watercolor on postcard

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Nandalal preferred drawing from life, often sketching outdoors with the subject being life, nature studies, landscapes, figure drawings, animals. Often the sketches were small in scale although invigorating with the rich detailing of the artist's observations, experiences and sojourns to various places. The artist has represented in this drawing a Bagan (Garden) of Kala Bhavan in Santiniketan, with quick dabs of watercolour. A small figure of a lonesome lady in the middle of the thicket is also depicted. The fluid handling of the line and their strong delineation was the influence of the Far Eastern art practices. Nandalal 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.
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