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    Nandalal Bose

    A Sketch from Album No. 85 9187 Nandalal Bose Pen & Ink on postcard

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Nandalal's exploration of the different ways of delineating a line allowed him to experiment in representation of lines in its varying forms adding rhythm, vigour and life to the forms. The above postcard illustrates a tree densely laden with leaves. The artist has executed the leaves with patterned quick strokes. Nandalal Bose in his book 'Vision and Creation' writes, "A tree grows upward; it is driven by a singular urge to spread towards the sky- trunk, branch and leaf. The trunk is like the tree's backbone; so its characteristic rhythm has to be drawn first; then its main structure with branch and twig; and finally, the total image with its bunches of leaves and shoots..."
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