• NGMA India

    Nandalal Bose

    A Sketch from Album No. 85 9192 Nandalal Bose Pen & Ink on postcard

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Through his exploratory studies, Nandalal created a visual language by the use of simple lines, tones and strokes to model and bring about a corporeality of form and substance. The perceptible representation of the banana tree with its peculiar clustered flowers is executed with a range of linear styles with pen and ink that lends tonal variations and brings out the true form of the tree. The presence of a bat and the crescent moon in the backdrop is suggestive of night time. Nandalal Bose in his book, 'On Art' writes- "Nature is life itself and teeming always with infinite variety; it is in her that the artist always renews his experience and finds an unceasing flow of inspiration."
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