Anupam Sud’s picture frame is rather fitting—a nondescript face culminating into a Punchinello—probably informing the viewer of what really happens in love; one of the two in a relationship always having to give away the strings in the hands of the other. Adding weight to the narrative is a cupid figure who watches a couple from above, huddled nervously with a bow and no arrow in sight. Nudity, used as a metaphor by Sud, often signified vulnerability, as is the case with this couple.
published references
Sen, Geeti, ed., Transgression in Print | Anupam Sud: Four Decades (New Delhi: Palette Art Gallery, 2007), p. 117
Anupam Sud
Cupid Playing
1996
Etching and aquatint on handmade paper
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Cupid Playing
1996
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