As he sketches the live model sitting nude, the hands and toes of the drawing keep disappearing.

Thematic confusion amongst the teachers

Task of preserving the excellence of Indian decoration and improving it with the techniques of Indian naturalism. They were expected to improve the flat design ty learning to reproduce them three dimensionally. The exercise was self defeating, because one had to choose between flat or illusionist treatment but not both at once. Once one moves towards the mimetic representation of objects in natural light, one if forced to sacrifice some of the formal clarity and pure colour arrangement, strength of non representational art.