Indian Architecture (Buddhist and Hindu Periods) c40.37

c40.37

and wood, treating these in a manner which suggests something of a much more tensile nature, twisting and turning the former, and taking advantage of the texture, grain, and even colour of the latter in obtaining their artistic effects. They were also fully aware of the fact of "beauty in utility," so that every object in their daily lives, however humble, was aesthetically treated, an outstanding example, among many, being the metal spouts of their conduits converted by means of a spirited and appropriate *makara* motif into works of art, on which the craftsmen must have spent laborious days in sheer enthusiasm for their subject.