Indian Sculpture c8.70

c8.70

The lotus-landscape, with the flowers of various varieties in various aspects of growth, makes the rich and restful pattern of bands and roundels; the bunch in the centre issues from a tortoise.187 The centrifugal energy that makes buds open into flowers and petals, which seem to rotate around and droop away from their centre and their radiating and continuous movement, with an incisiveness of line, result in a composition fulfilled in the plenitude of form-relations. The human figure, inserted disconnectedly into the fierce restfulness of the ‘landscape,’ is assimilated to it by the centrifugal net of lines, cast over its fitting and long sleeved coat and across the dhoti too.