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For an artist at the forefront of the country’s exploration of an Indian idiom for post-Independence art, there couldn’t have been a more befitting choice of medium than terracotta. And there couldn’t have been a more popular fable to retell. In this work, K. G. Subramanyan presents the familiar story of Radha and Krishna; the cowherd playing his flute under a kadamb tree, luring the fair maiden, cattle, and a serpent too. What sets it apart from traditional Radha-Krishna paintings is the modern treatment he gives to the mythological figures.