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Ram Kumar
Ram Kumar
Ram Kumar, like many of his confreres among the first generation of post-colonial Indian artists, including F N Souza, M F Husain, S H Raza and Akbar Padamsee, combined an internationalist desire with the need to belong emphatically to their homeland. This need prompted an interest in the construction of a viable ‘Indian’ aesthetic that bore a dynamic relationship to an Indian identity.
After briefly dabbling in figurative painting, Kumar started painting landscapes and cityscapes that had obvious connections to Cubism, but developed into a visual vocabulary that was unmistakably Kumar's own. He dismissed realism and, instead, recreated the feeling of a place through precariously-balanced shapes, bold lines and earthy colours. He was awarded the Padamshri by the Government of India in 1971. The artist recently passed away in April 2018.
Ram Kumar, like many of his confreres among the first generation of post-colonial Indian artists, including F N Souza, M F Husain, S H Raza and Akbar Padamsee, combined an internationalist desire with the need to belong emphatically to their homeland. This need prompted an interest in the construction of a viable ‘Indian’ aesthetic that bore a dynamic relationship to an Indian identity.
After briefly dabbling in figurative painting, Kumar started painting landscapes and cityscapes that had obvious connections to Cubism, but developed into a visual vocabulary that was unmistakably Kumar's own. He dismissed realism and, instead, recreated the feeling of a place through precariously-balanced shapes, bold lines and earthy colours. He was awarded the Padamshri by the Government of India in 1971. The artist recently passed away in April 2018.
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