Friday, February 26, 2010

‘A master artist has also to be a master technician’

(Some of the ancient) murals that survive now date from the pre-christian era. Their survival ,inspite of centuries of neglect and depredations, eloquently speaks of the soundness and excellence of the technical methods and processes employed by our artists of old.’
-Prof S.K.Saraswathi (in foreword to Jayanta Chakrabarti’s ‘Techniques in Indian Mural Painting’