En busca de la línea rítmica: Influencia de la estampa japonesa en los usos pedagógicos de la Escuela de Bengala

Abstract

This text discusses how the conception of line in Japanese printmaking was used to define a particular way of learning drawing in the pedagogical context of colonial Bengal, and in particular in the Kala Bhavana school in Śāntiniketan (circa 1920-1950). Japanese influence in early twentieth-century India was instrumental in defining an anti-colonial artistic identity and in establishing theoretical approaches and vernacular teaching patterns. In particular, it analyses how the artistic theory of the master Nandalal Bose (1882-1966) articulated a series of drawing guides under the title of Rupavali, whose form and scope cannot be understood without the influence of the Japanese woodcut technique.