Rocks

The culturally-rooted artist from Goa, Laxman Pai often created works of art that had a strong affiliation with his own experiences and became abstract journeys from the memory. Rocks, his work from the late 1960s, depicts his experimentation with distortion, here taken to an extreme by an artist whose early works veered towards the lyrical. As with most of his work, colour is integral in Rocks. The colour palette was crucial to him—whether in surrealist imagery bordering on the abstract, village scenes from Goa, or the purely abstract.