Recalling Ramkinkar - artist and man
by K G Subramanyan First published in the Visva-bharati Quarterly, Volume 2, 1991 .
A few years ago the well-known Bengali novelist Samaresh Basu started serialising a novel on Ramkinkar's life in a noted Bengali weekly. This was on his mind for many years, during which he made personal contacts
read more Modern Indian art in the last three decades
by K G Subramanyan Published in Indian Art since the early 40s- a search for identity, 1974, Artists' Handicrafts Association, Cholamandal Artists' Village, Madras.
In the history of modern Indian art the last thirty years are bound to be considered of signal importance if only for the widening and deepening
read more An Artist Crazy with his Art
by K G Subramanyan A comprehensive retrospective of Ram Kinkar Baiz's work is well-nigh impossible, because he is one of those artists who are an art historian's despair, who have never kept their work together or kept a reliable record of them, or even cared what happened to them once the creative fever was over. It
read more Excerpts from a Notebook (Mu Chi)
by K G Subramanyan Mu Chi has turned up again after many years. These years have changed him. He no more walks with that cultivated slouch. His eyes are more open. Not narrowed into pincers like they used to be. He no more carries his camera round his neck to record whatever he sees.
The records are no use when they
read more Speaking of Jogen
by K G Subramanyan It is hard enough for an artist to write about his own work. But it is harder to write about the work of another. For artist can handle this with clean hands, soiled as they are with the sweat of his responses. And no artist will readily agree to wear what one may call gloves of impartiality.
I
read more The Artist on Art
by K G Subramanyan What an artist writes about art is of necessity different from what an art critic or art historian would. Involved in the act of creation, the artist carries his intuitions orbed around himself like a special universe and whatever he says or writes about art will be cut to its measure. I am no exception
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