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Wall Paintings from Ancient Shrines in Central Asia : vol.1 | |
中央アジアの古代寺院の壁画 : vol.1 |
thick rather curly hair, short but with a rippling lock falling in front of the ear,
and a greatly amplified top-knot, which forms the usnisa. The significance of
the treatment of the human hair is world-wide, and since the inexplicable indiscre-
tion of Samson in confiding to the perfidious Delilah the secret of his strength, the
hair has been subjected to many fantastic variations, prescribed by tribal or
canonical edict, superstition, or just by the equally inexorable decrees of fashion;
and perhaps nowhere has this been more widely observed than in India. It is an
attractive subject for investigation, but cannot be pursued here.
In the Introduction I have said that the sharp black contour lines of later paint-
ings are not found in those of Mirán (p. xxii). A qualified exception may be made
in respect of the M. V. 004 `angel', in which the contours are black and sharp; but
they have not the fearless sweep and expression such as a Chinese painter would
have given them. Nevertheless, there are other features in this example which
suggest the work of a hand other than those which painted the M. III `angels'. The
flesh is without shading, and the neck is short. The eyes are long and narrow, the
upper lid drawn with a single line. The irises are black, whereas in every other
case they are dark brown outlined with black and with black pupils. Then there is
the Chinese cloud scroll on the band of the lunette.
Although eyes and mouth are generally well drawn in all the N_irán pictures and
are expressive and animated, study of the nose seems to have been less successful.
The Semitic curve is confident as far as the tip of the nose but the form of nostril
and wing is generally meanly and inadequately sketched; giving the impression
that the slight foreshortening called for presented an unsolved difficulty. Fore-
shortening involves an application of the laws of perspective, and judging from
the drawing of the chariot in the Vessantarai picture on the upper part of the walls
of this shrine, the Mirán artists had less understanding of these laws than had
their fellow craftsmen in the West.
I Cf. Figs. 135, 136, Serindia, vol. 1.
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