In this painting, the artist Ram Kumar has composed different geometrical shapes blends together with the shades of oil colour, creating depth in the composition using oil on canvas. It is now exhibited in the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi.
- Identifier
- ngma-02875
- Material
- Oil, Canvas
- Note
- Ram Kumar born in 1924 and grew up in a large middle class family with eight other siblings in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh. He studied masters in Economics from St. Stephens, from Delhi University. He has an interest in Arts and started practicing on his own. He took evening classes at the Sharada Ukil School of Art which was one of the two main centres of activity in the later half of 1940's in visual arts other being the AIFACS, under Sailoz Mookherjee. He left the country to study further in Paris under Andre Lhote and Fernand Leger, two major painters of France. He has been awarded with the John D. Rockefeller III Fellowship, New York, 1970; Padmashree, Government of India, 1972; Padma Bhushan, Government of India, 2010 and a fellowship by Lalit Kala Academy and also the Officers Arts et letters, Government of France, 2003. His paintings appear to be spontaneous, they are in fact, carefully built up to achieve a dynamic feeling of asymmetry and relief to our aesthetic sensibility. From 60's onwards, the figure disappears and the image of the physical world, that is of land forms, rocks, hills, houses, birds, stretches of water, sky and clouds; nature in totality with its varied physiognomy seems to engage him. His landscapes, actual (such as Varanasi) or imaginary, offer a scope for form-structure manipulation wherein the subject and style mutually support each other.
- Pages
- 80 X 150 cm
- Published in
- India
- Type
- Painting
