K. G. Subramanyan
K.G. Subramanyam * कला एक संसार नहीं लेकिन यदि हमें संसार को समझना है तो कला हमें तैयार करती है... * ‘I am a restless soul’ * “To stoop down and kiss the earth. Between the skyward sprouts And the leaves that fall to earth Revolves the endless tale Of birth and life and death.” K. G. Subramanyan was born in 1924 in Kuthuparambain Kerala, India, and studied economics at Presidency College, Madras. The turning point of his life as an artist came when he visited Santiniketan to study at Kala Bhavan, the art faculty of Visva Bharati University in 1944 under the guidance of Nandalal Bose, Benode Behari Mukherjee, and Ramkinkar Baij. K.G. Subramanyan was greatly influenced by folk art from Kerala, Kalighat painting, and Pattachitra from Bengal and Odisha, as well as Indian court paintings. His visual language combines a variety of elements like art principles of European Modernism and folk expression. He is known as a painter, muralist, sculptor, printmaker, set ...