Studio Interior

K. G. Subramanyan uses several devices in this abstract painting—flat colour planes, parallel lines that draw attention to the central core of the painting, crosshatching to create depth, and white as a stratagem of control. The resulting dynamism is playful while being suggestive of nothing. Here is an abstract that does not manipulate the viewer’s thinking in any known direction. It is free of encumbrance, bereft of interpretation, a painting to be enjoyed solely for itself—a claim few artists can make for their art.