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Album No-4 (Landscapes) is an elegant sketch of the coastal landscape of Puri, Odisha, painted by Nandalal Bose during his travel. The artist had closely observed the natural setting and seascape, as well as the native communities of the land. The sketch, inscribed with "Puri" in the right bottom corner, indicates his connoisseurship in terms of India's cultural and natural beauty. The work finds itself today in the hands of the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi.
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Album No-4 (Landscapes) is an elegant sketch of the coastal landscape of Puri, Odisha, painted by Nandalal Bose during his travel. The artist had closely observed the natural setting and seascape, as well as the native communities of the land. The sketch, inscribed with "Puri" in the right bottom corner, indicates his connoisseurship in terms of India's cultural and natural beauty. The work finds itself today in the hands of the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi. Spreading quite hard in the rarest of species, Nandalal Bose was one of those artists who belonged to the Bengal School of Art. But, shaped by Indian culture, folk traditions, and nature, his brush dealt with themes set against beautiful rural landscapes and tribal homes, painted in minute detail and almost impressionistically. They build the intense and primitive art traditions of two tribal groups in Odisha - the Saura and the Munda, more famous with their arts than their cultivation of corn and living folklore. This sketch puts forth Bose's art genre very much, where he tried to bring out the spirit of Indian landscape and the indigenous communities, thus qualifying it as an important cultural documentation.
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