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Krishna Reddy
Group of Trees
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1963 size
15.0 x 22.2 in. / 38.1 x 56.4 cm. medium
Watercolour and waterproof ink on paper
Trained in Santiniketan as a sculptor, Krishna Reddy, one of India’s foremost artists who brought in a new language in printmaking, approached his art with a sense of urgency. The distinctive form he is associated with is the fractal, allowing the physical being or that which is concrete to melt and diffuse into a nether world. Just as in his prints, he creates in this watercolour a rising crescendo, each note bringing you closer to an immense uplifting of the spirit, a transition to the realm of the abstract. published references
Karode, Roobina, ed., Manifestations, Indian Art in the 20th Century (New Delhi: DAG, 2003), unpaginated
Singh, Kishore, ed., Memory & Identity, Indian Artists Abroad (New Delhi: DAG, 2016), p. 187
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