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 sez faire treatment of sentiments, and so forth, one can easily pick up the Hindu elements from the Cêzannesque paintings and Rodin's sculptures and drawings.

Let us listen first to Rodin lecturing on the beauties of Venus of Melos:

"In the synthesis of the work of art the arms, the legs, count only when they meet in accordance with the planes that associate them in a same effect; and it is thus in nature, who cares not for our analytical description. The great artists proceed as nature composes and not as anatomy decrees. They never sculpture any muscle, any nerve, any bone, for itself; it is the whole at which they aim and which they express." (Dudley's transl., p. 15.) It is this theorizing that virtually underlies Hindu art work.