Ram Kumar was a major figure of Indian modern abstraction. In a career spanning over sixty years, he engaged with the genre of abstract landscapes for most part of his life. His abstracts have also been referred to as ‘inscapes’ for the deep, inward journeys they portray, as opposed to his engagement with the immediate, external world during his student days in Europe. Looking at works such as this Untitled drawing makes one aware of the seismic forces that underlie an apparently calm landscape that embodies lightness and is bereft of human presence.
published references
Singh, Kishore, ed., Indian Abstracts: An Absence of Form (New Delhi: DAG, 2014), p. 245 Singh, Kishore, ed., Ram Kumar | Masterpieces of Indian Modern Art (New Delhi: DAG, 2019), p. 23
Ram Kumar
Untitled
1965
Ink on paper
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1965
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