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    Nandalal Bose

    A Sketch from Album No. 89 9277 Nandalal Bose Pen & Ink on postcard

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Dinkar Kowshik in his book, 'Nandalal Bose: The Doyen of Indian Art', writes- "Drawing was a definition, a distillation of form. Through line several individual variations of form were brought together, condensed, simplified and expressed in a general, universal statement." Nandalal had firm belief that for the creation of art an intimate understanding of the nature and its ways is imperative. In the above postcard, the perceptible representation of the palm tree with its ridged surface and the fan shaped leaves are executed with a range of linear styles with pen and ink that lends tonal variations and brings out the true form of the tree.
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