K.G.Subramanyan sketches scribbles drawing

Description :-Seagull Books. Condition: As New. Contents: Reminiscences and reflections/K.G. Subramanyan. 1. List of works reproduced. 2. K.G. Subramanyan: a biographical sketch/R. Siva Kumar. A sketch records something that happens between the artist and the object. Now closer to the artist now closer to the object but still hanging in the tension in between. Or the memory or recall of that tension. A composite of line scratches smears swabs and dots that recreates an object it learns its rhythm in the process. And becomes an object by itself. The artist sometimes keeps it to the essentials; at other times he dresses it up and makes it play a role. Set sail a narrative. And take one to new shores of experience. This uncovers new images. So this ceaseless doodling; the unravelling of what is then its reknitting into novel composites. K.G. Subramanyan is widely recognized as one of India’s major modern artists an influential teacher an astute writer on art and an authority on the folk tribal and craft traditions of India. This volume of his sketches scribbles drawings spans the work of the last 30 years with the bulk of the material coming from the period between 1980 and the present. The selection has been put together by the artist himself with the aim of compiling a definitive collection. This volume includes his early sketches from 1968 the black and white drawings for his reverse paintings from 1980 his China Japan London and Oxford sketches drawings of nature and figure studies. It provides a rich variety of mediums and styles from works in crayon and water colour to pen and ink scribbles brush drawings notes doodles and working drawings. The volume opens with a thoughtful introduction by K.G. Subramanyan reflecting on the importance and purpose of such sketches and drawings for an artist and looking back on his experiences over a long and eminent career. There is also a substantial biographical sketch prepared by art historian and close associate R. Siva Kumar who has closely observed K.G. Subramanyan’s ouevre over the years. 288 pp.