The Hindu Temple v2.c12.113

v2.c12.113

The seriousness of this celestial dancer resides in a straight profile which is the key to a context of lines and volumes set against one another in wide angles. The volume of the head and the straight high crown, have their unified keen outline inclined against the square plane below it. Its rounded edge is the raised arm, bent in this sharp angle as if throwing a dice, similar in shape to the ear-ring, as part of this particular dance. Right angles dominate the face; feathery pendants of the necklace, hair lowered into, and then brushed up from, the forehead, frame and soften the valour of this sculpture.