Indian Sculpture c5.s3.t1.2

c5.s3.t1.2

The vegetative rhythm of this recurrent and undulating movement has no longer plants for its carrier. While these have disappeared from the compositions they leave their movement in them, freely rhythmical and diffused throughout them, as if it were a strong scent. It clings to and permeates the human figures, now entirely moulded according to this unending rhythm. What had been beheld as extensive is now shown as acting from within, with an irrefutable calmness. This inflexion of vegetative life and of its rendering in expressive signs, reminiscent of their plant-origin, leads to a ‘transubstantiation’ of the body. The naturalism of the modelling is now rarified and is brought about by the flowing movement of life itself (cf. p. 50).