The Hindu Temple v2.c12.155

v2.c12.155

In this most perfect composition of its kind, the hem of the loin-cloth,—opening, slipping,—is part of the diagonal theme of raised, interlaced shapes forming waves, in depth, and squares and rectangles, in the surface, all of which begin, and are supported, on the stem of the legs, from the touching of feet, on the ground, to ever renewed contacts. In their fingers, twist of the hair or the folding of the cloth are spells and evocations, of that state of being a couple of which the entire composition is an image.