Regarding the Drawings of K. G. Subramanyan

Essay:   Prof. R. Siva Kumar
             Prof. K. G. Subramanyan

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433 pages with 536 colour plates
Pages with text 33

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Eminent artist, art educationist, designer, writer and philosopher of art, K. G. Subramanyan is a major presence on the Indian art scene.

“Encompassing doodles, scribbles, sketches, studies, calligraphic and tinted drawings, and drawing with pigments; done using ballpoint pen, brush and ink, crayon, alone or in combination with colour or ink washes, and in gouache; and employing graphic devices ranging from marks, scrawls, calligraphic brush work, freehand flourishes, strokes and dabs Subramanyan’s repertoire of drawings is large. But cutting across these differences they are all undertaken to know the world and to think his way through it; to let the world into himself and to write himself onto the world. And looking at his drawings when we see aspects of the world reflected in them, and looking at the world we notice elements of his vision reflected in it, we know he has achieved what he had set out to do” – Prof. R. Siva Kumar

Prof. R. Siva Kumar is presently Professor of Art History at Visva Bharati, Santiniketan. He has curated several important exhibitions and written extensively on Modern Indian Art.