J. Swaminathan creates in Still Life with Black Ground a strong pictorial language, which takes shape from the artist’s own thought process and his own visual idiom. Many modernists from India had chosen to eliminate academic realism from their works in still-life genre, bringing in instead their own personal experience and alternate visual vocabulary—as Swaminathan does in this etching and aquatint.
published references
Singh, Kishore, ed., Group 1890: India’s Indigenous Modernism (New Delhi: DAG, 2016), p. 204
J. Swaminathan
Still Life with Black Ground
Etching and aquatint on paper
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Still Life with Black Ground
Etching and aquatint on paper
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