Indian Sculpture c8.284

c8.284

Reclining against the wall of the temple, and fettered to it by the motif of the tree, hidden by darkness, the figure strives away and upward, where its raised arms appear arrested against the foliage of the tree. The urge of the un-formed towards its own articulate form, the urge within the human figure towards its ultimate state, i.e. towards liberation, keep pace in this relief. The myth of the inter-connection between the life of tree and woman is invested with a fullness of body, smoothness of limbs—with jewels in this case organically one with it—and with a high tension of the curve of the outline.