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Painter, sculptor, muralist, K G Subramanyan was born in a village in north Kerala in 1924. Following a brief period as a student of economics at Presidency College, Calcutta, Subramanyan underwent training at Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan, under the tutelage of eminent artists like Nandalal Bose, Binode Behari Mukherjee and Ramkinkar Baij. Later, he was admitted to the Slade School of Art, London. This exposure to Western Modernism was later synthesised with his work, essentially rooted in an indigenous folk tradition.It was in the late 70s that Subramanyan shifted his focus to a two-century old vibrant craft tradition of reverse painting and created a new language for the medium that suited his own temperament and our modern sensibility. In the process, he breathed new life into the medium. A man of multifaceted talents, Subramanyan demolished banners between artist and artisan. He experimented with weaving and toy-making. He also dabbled in several mediums earlier used in Indian art. For example, the terracotta mural and glass painting found a new lease of life with his experiments. Subramanyan believes that all visual arts are primarily based on visual facts and our responses to them. In accordance with the complex responses involving sensation, interpretation and emotional discharge thrown into diverse circuits, his works feed on many-layered impulses that temper romanticism with wit and eroticism. Each medium which Subramanyan explores is a response to a particular sensibility strand. Characteristic of the artist, the sensuous works draw upon the rich resources of myth, memory and tradition to make high-keyed statements that express his unique vision of the world
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K G Subramanyan
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(b 1924)
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