Alice Boner was a Swiss painter and sculptor, art historian, and an Indologist.
22 Facts About Alice Boner
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Alice Boner's sketches were spontaneous, a series of observations, that are usually performed only with a few quick strokes, and are focused on the essential characteristics of the body.
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Between 1926 and 1930, Boner made trips to Morocco, Tunisia and India with the dancer Uday Shankar.
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Alice Boner was born in Italy in 1889 to Swiss parents.
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Alice Boner was immediately intrigued by the elegant dance movements of Shankar, and with his consent made some sketches on paper and with clay.
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Alice Boner moved to Paris in 1928 and continued her work as a sculptor.
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Alice Boner saw Uday Shankar again in Paris in 1929, and he desired to go back to India to recruit a troupe of musicians and dancers.
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Alice Boner advertised the troupe, but helped with costumes and correspondences.
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Alice Boner gave up sculpting, saying that it was "too slow a process to catch up with the wealth of aspects India offered to the observing eye".
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In 1939, Alice Boner began to paint Indian deities after studying sacred Indian scriptures, but in accordance with her diary, these paintings were never made public.
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Alice Boner went on to become increasingly fascinated by Indian art and philosophy, studying both for the majority of her time in India.
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Alice Boner spent much time observing Indian art, especially sculptures, at various sites including the Ellora Cave-temples.
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Alice Boner used to live on Ddashashwamedh Ghat and her house is known to some people as Alice Boner Ghat.
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Alice Boner wanted to make a film about Holy Ganga but unfortunately, people from Varanasi didn't allow her.
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Alice Boner fell ill while visiting Switzerland, and on 13 April 1981 died in Zurich at the age of 91.
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Alice Boner studied sculptures intensely, and suggested that while a sculpture is set in a square or rectangular frame, the key geometrical element is a circle.
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Alice Boner referred to this as the space division of an image.
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Alice Boner suggested that oblique parallel lines, based on one of the either 6,8, or 12 dividing diameters, serve as orientation for the sculptures.
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Alice Boner referred to these lines as time division, as they determine the movement in a sculpture.
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In 1957, Alice Boner met Pandit Sadashiva Rath Sharma who introduced her to a palm-leaf manuscript called Shilpa Prakasha.
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The Shilpa Prakasha itself was an architects manual on the rules of constructing a Hindu temple, and as such included references to many of the principles Alice Boner had studied previously.
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Alice Boner worked on these large paintings for several years, but was never quite satisfied with them.