Lot 155
K G Subramanyan Dwayi
Medium: Gouache on board
Year: -
Size: 24 x 24 in
Estimate ₹ 6,00,000 - ₹ 8,00,000 View additional charges
Signed : Bottom Right
Provenance: Property from a collection based in New Delhi.
Signed : Bottom Right
K G SubramanyanA painter, muralist, sculptor, printmaker, writer, scholar, teacher, and also prolific art historian, K G Subramanyan was a multi-talented Indian artist who developed a completely individualistic artistic idiom through the course of his career. Starting his education as a student of economics at Presidency College, Madras, he eventually studied art at Shantiniketan under the tutelage of legendary artists Nandanlal Bose, Benode Behari Mukherjee, and Ramkinar Baij. Subramanyan was also awarded a British Council Research Fellowship to study at the Slade School of Art in London in 1955. Ten
Year: s later he travelled to New York as a Rockefeller Fellow.
In a vibrant synthesis of the modern and the traditional, Subramanyan’s works were inspired by varied sources including Indigenous Bengali artistic traditions, Indian tribal art, folk symbolism as well as elements of European modernism such as cubism. Drawing from the rich resources of personal memories and mythical fables, the artists depicted women, children, objects, and animals in a theatrical play of vibrant colours which gave his canvases a sense of magical realism.
K.G. Subramanyan is among the few artists who explored the possibilities of modern art from a different perspective, giving new dimensions to the human figure by making them appear more as characters from various myths and traditional narratives, populating a composition quite the contrary. As an artist he was extraordinarily versatile, cherishing the facility to work in diverse media,
Size: s, and techniques over stylistic conformity to a single
Medium: , genre,
Size: , technique, and manner of visualisation. The artist gave the human figure a new dimension. Drawing upon the rich resources of myth, memory, and tradition, Subramanyan tempers romanticism with wit and eroticism.
“The men and women in my works strike heroic poses, sometimes they also break into loud dialogues, there is a lot of action going on, between the characters and mythical stereotypes- a new reality is born. Over the
Year: s, I have taken pleasure in mixing the normal with the hieratic, the worldly with the unworldly. Everything is about conversations and metaphors,” said the artist about his practice in an interview with art critic and writer Uma Nair.
The revered artist also made a great contribution to the discourse of art history by writing extensively on Indian art which created the foundation for the study of contemporary Indian art. He also wrote delightfully illustrated fables for children.
In 1962, Kulkarni was elected to the General Council of the Lalit Kala Academy.He received the Kalidas Samman in 1981, the Padma Shree in 1975, a D. Litt. (Honoris Causa) from the Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta in 1992 and became a Fellow of Kerala Lalit Kala Akademi in 1993.
The artist passed away in 2016 at the age of 92.
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