Untitled
This drawing belongs to a group of five works on paper completed by the Indian artist K.G. Subramanyan after his 1966–67 Rockefeller scholarship in New York. It demonstrates a shift in his practice away from the overwrought culture of oil painting as practiced in Europe at the time, and toward the bold, sometimes naïve and cynical freedom of American artists of the 1960’s. The odd forms in the drawing, resembling figurative elements like arms or legs, unfurl like animated confetti out of an enclosed grid. The tension generated between chaos and a kind of composure produces a wonderful rhythm in the work.
Artwork Details
- Title: Untitled
- Artist: K.G. Subramanyan (Indian, Kuthuparamba 1924–2016 Vadodara)
- Date: 1968
- Medium: Ink marker on paper
- Dimensions: 14 13/16 × 11 13/16 in. (37.7 × 30 cm)
- Classification: Drawings
- Credit Line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 2017
- Object Number: 2017.109
- Rights and Reproduction: © Uma Padmanabhan
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art
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