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    Nandalal Bose

    A Sketch from Album No. 86 9209 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 two women passing through the thicket of a grove with one of them holding a stick in her hand. The folds of their drapes, their coiffures, ornaments and their implements are keenly observed by the artist. Nandalal uses delicate lines to create the form of the women with accentuated contours of the body, the drapes and also for representing the dense growth in the background. 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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