The Hindu Temple v2.c12.87

v2.c12.87

The overstrained movement which makes joints bend at unforeseen angles or stretched out of existence, in this particular carving, is mild (see however Pls. XIII, XV, etc.); its curves are smooth; loops and clasps formed by various parts of the costume, in close adherence to the modelled body, mediate between the linear rhythms and the richer depth movements. Their interplay is steadied by oval and globular shapes such as the vessel, the face and the various fruit like shapes of the chignon, etc., which accompany head and back. All these rounded weights are strung along either side of the swaying and turning body. In its long, smooth legs is straightened out the exuberance of the upper part of the figure. To them the small person at the bottom is the final correspondence.