"According to Subramanyan, tradition was dead until artists made it a living fire through practice. This view of tradition led Subramanyan to explore the intersection of the major and minor, or art and crafts, as he experimented with drawing, oil painting, watercolor, sculpture, and moralism alongside projects in set-design, toy-making, book illustration, and art-writing in the 1960s, 1970s, and afterward. These were efforts at generating a...
"According to Subramanyan, tradition was dead until artists made it a living fire through practice. This view of tradition led Subramanyan to explore the intersection of the major and minor, or art and crafts, as he experimented with drawing, oil painting, watercolor, sculpture, and moralism alongside projects in set-design, toy-making, book illustration, and art-writing in the 1960s, 1970s, and afterward. These were efforts at generating a national modernism akin to a hydra-headed beast, a practice in which diversity was privileged over purity and the past offered a dream of the future." (Sonal Khullar, "The New Primitives: K G Subramanyan," Worldly Affiliations , Oakland: University of California Press, 2015, p. 166)
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CREATIVE CIRCUIT: THE ART OF K G SUBRAMANYAN
Estimate
Rs 4,00,000 - 6,00,000
ARTWORK DETAILS
K G Subramanyan
a) Untitled
(Set of four)
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EXHIBITEDIMPACT: design thinking and the visual arts in young India , Mumbai: Chatterjee & Lal,
Category: Painting