Terracotta-II

K.G Subramanyan has been active for more than 65 years, alive and very contemporary. He remains one of India’s most engaging and influential artists.

At Santiniketan he learnt from masters such as Benodebehari Mukherjee, Nandalal Bose and Ramkinkar Baij to perceive art in a new light; a response to social and personal needs for communication and expression, and to seek a perspective on art that has a cultural rather than a professional horizon.

During the 70’s Subramanyan re-articulated the age old techniques of terracotta and his retake on the popular genre of glass painting.

Subramanyan’s terracotta sculptures with their use of flattened slabs of terracotta have been lightly pressed, tweaked, crimped, pursed and have been modeled in a rather unconventional fashion creating new and exciting forms.