"While Subramanyan insists upon the importance of the iconography of what he would call "tradition," he also insists upon the importance of "enlivening" these icons, and deliberately interrupting their easy transmission. As a result, even as he denies mastery over his own works, their distance from mere convention is a product of Subramanyan's own sensibility. (Karin Zitzewitz, "The Modernist Icon and Visual Culture: K G Subramanyan," The Art of...
"While Subramanyan insists upon the importance of the iconography of what he would call "tradition," he also insists upon the importance of "enlivening" these icons, and deliberately interrupting their easy transmission. As a result, even as he denies mastery over his own works, their distance from mere convention is a product of Subramanyan's own sensibility. (Karin Zitzewitz, "The Modernist Icon and Visual Culture: K G Subramanyan," The Art of Secularism, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2014, p. 59)
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CREATIVE CIRCUIT: THE ART OF K G SUBRAMANYAN
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Rs 2,50,000 - 3,50,000
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Rs 1,77,120
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K G Subramanyan
a) UntitledDrawings of Women , presented by The Seagull Foundation for the Arts at Santiniketan: Nandan Gallery, Kala Bhavana, 5 - 14 February 2017; Patna: Bihar Museum, 3 - 16 November 2017; Kolkata: Birla Academy of Art and Culture, 14 March - 14 April 2018; New Delhi: Art Heritage, 13 August - 9 September 2018; Hyderabad: Kalakriti Art Gallery, 20 October - 1 November 2018; Ahmedabad: L&P Hutheesingh Visual Art Centre, 20 November - 2 December 2018Women Seen and Remembered: Drawings of Women by K G Subramanyan , Kolkata: Seagull Books, 2017, p. 208Drawings , Mumbai: The Guild, 2010, p. 225
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Category: Painting