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| Ram Kumar |
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Abstract landscape 10
22 1/2 x 30 in.
Acrylic on paper
2005
Estimates: $15,000-20,000 |
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| Artist Bio |
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Born 1924, in Simla, Himanchal Pradesh, India.
Ram Kumar, like many of the first generation of post-colonial Indian artists – including such figures as F. N. Souza, M. F. Husain, S. H. Raza and Akbar Padamsee – combined an internationalist desire with the need to represent and belong to their homeland. In its internationalist mood, this generation looked to the early 20th-century modernisms of Paris, London and Vienna for inspiration; its need to belong prompted an interest in the construction of a viable "Indian" aesthetic that bore a dynamic relationship to an Indian identity. With Ram Kumar, this quest for an indigenous tenor has not meant a superficial inventory of 'native' motifs offered as evidence of a static and essentialist Indian identity. Instead, Kumar demonstrated that a painter can enact the innermost dramas of his culture while maintaining the individualistic idiosyncrasy of his performance.
Ram Kumar lives and works in New Delhi.
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