Siva Drinking World Poison

Nandalal's work reflects changing landscapes, portraits of people, sketches from life and places at the time of changing outlook in the modern Indian cultural domain. His nature to explore the various materials and mediums allowed him to make a prolific body of work in different mediums. Along with his explorations of art learning from the style of Rabindranath Tagore art and Abanindranath art, he also imbibed the techniques of art from the European indigenous tradition and the Japanese wash technique. This work of his made in the wash technique on paper depicts Shiva drinking poison.