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Trained as a painter and sculptor, Gopal Ghose—a founding member of the Calcutta Group— explored multiple visual vocabularies for representing nature. He was particularly drawn to the modernist languages of Expressionism and Cubism and used them to play with forms and colours in his nature paintings. He travelled extensively within India to paint and concentrated almost exclusively on depicting flora and landscapes. His paintings of flowers, particularly, stand out, earning him recognition as a colourist. Reinterpreting the genre of landscape painting, he focused on the interplay between form and colour and how they appear in one’s memory. A blue flower emerges from an orange-yellow background as the singular subject of this painting.