Decorative Landscape

A prominent artist of the Madras Movement, L. Munuswamy’s personal language of abstraction had a highly international character, which helps situate his art as a truly global output of modernism. The work in consideration here, Decorative Landscape, attests to his pithy vision of abstractionism as he uses an aesthetic mélange of natural colours to evoke the sense of tropical foliage—broad leaves of evergreen trees, bright and big tropical blooms, rivulets or oceanic backwaters, all are discernible in this image.