Observe the painting and answer the question asked: |
What statement regarding narrative techniques in the Yuddha Kanda is incorrect? |
Sahibdin layers several episodes into a single painting. A single episode is spread over more than one folio in the Yuddha Kanda. Sahibdin avoids using narrative techniques in the painting. Oblique aerial perspective is a narrative technique employed by Sahibdin. |
Sahibdin avoids using narrative techniques in the painting. |
Answer: Sahibdin avoids using narrative techniques in the painting. Attributed to ingenious artist Sahibdin, Yuddha Kanda, the Book of Battles, is a chapter in the Ramayana set of paintings, popularly referred to as the Jagat Singh Ramayana. Dated 1652, Sahibdin, herein, has crafted a novel pictorial device that of oblique aerial perspective to impart credibility to the ambitious scale that war pictures encompass. Deploying various narrative techniques, he either layers several episodes into a single painting as this one, or spreads a single episode over more than one folio. The painting portrays Indrajit’s devious tactics and use of magic weapons in war. |