Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c9.32

c9.32

The dancing figure, full of grace and dignity, revels in the rhythm of the dance. It is impossible to study it and not to see that here again reverence and the desire to please fill the performer. The artist has expressed this with the simple power of what he felt himself, showing what he surely would have tried to do had he been the performer. The Prince seated on the throne with his wife at his side is a noble, pensive figure. He is pleased with the music and the dance, but his thoughts are far, far away. This again is a perfectly true note. The instinct which led the artist to express just this touches the centre of true feeling.