Indian Sculpture c5.s3.t2.24

c5.s3.t2.24

In the western caves, from now onwards, the relief itself and the reservoir space, into which it is embedded, are filled with and exist in a world of light and darkness. These, with one exception (p. 88), are not expressive of the mood of the figures to which they would give a suggestive staging; on the contrary, they belong integrally to the entire plastic conception and composition. Light and darkness, thus plastically conditioned and confined, acquire a strangely material quality, as if particles of matter were intermingled with light and warm sun-filled abysses. Nothing formed dares to escape this resilient body-space of light and darkness.