• NGMA India

    Nandalal Bose

    A Sketch from Album No. 86 9208 Nandalal Bose Pen and ink on paper

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Nandalal had firm belief that for the creation of art an intimate understanding of the nature and its ways is imperative. His smaller sketches are testimony of Nandalal's keenness to observe and his empathy for the environment in which he lived. In the above sketch the artist has depicted a woman passing through the thicket of a grove while holding a Sitar (musical instrument) in her hands. Nandalal uses delicate lines to create the form of the woman with accentuated contours of her body and the drape of the saree and also for representing the leaves of the tree. The artist is known for his unique visual language using simple lines, tones and strokes to model and bring about a corporeality of form and substance.
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