Untitled

Many of the early works done by Surendran Nair were studies of his friends and the models that the college provided for the life study classes. In Nair’s art, the human portraits were not just academic rendering, but became a documentation of sorts for the trends, the thought process of people at the time, including the ‘mental landscapes of those posed subjects’. What makes Nair’s art even more intriguing is his portraiture in printmaking, which he studied in Baroda and excelled in, proof of which is this Untitled work.