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Ram Kumar was a well-known abstract painter and one of the members of the Progressive Artists group. In the 1960s, he went on a trip to Varanasi with M.F. Hussain, which became a turning point in his art career. Inspired by the city’s spirituality, terrain and structures, he started painting increasingly abstract landscapes that reflected the impact of human habitation on nature.

Ram Kumar was conferred with Padma Shri in 1972 and Padma Bhushan in 2010.