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Ram Kumar

Ram Kumar (1924 - 2018) was active/lived in India.  Ram Kumar is known for Abstract painting.

Born in 1924 in Simla, Ram Kumar was among India’s leading modernists. He studied Economics at St. Stephen’s College, New Delhi, in 1946. Following this, he went to Paris to study painting under Andre Lhote and Fernard Leger in 1949-1952.


Ram Kumar, like many of his confreres among the first generation of post-colonial Indian artists - including such figures as F N Souza, M F Husain, Paritosh Sen, Jehangir Sabavala, Krishen Khanna, S H Raza and Akbar Padamsee - combined an internationalist desire with the need to belong emphatically to their homeland. In its internationalist mood, this generation looked to the early 20th-century modernisms of Paris, London and Vienna for inspiration; its need to belong prompted an interest in the construction of a viable ‘Indian’ aesthetic that bore a dynamic relationship to an Indian identity.


With Ram Kumar, this quest for an indigenist tenor has not meant a superficial inventory of ‘native’ motifs   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 14260 characters.]  Artist bio

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Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Ram Kumar available:    Jagdish Swaminathan,  Jyoti M Bhatt,  Akbar Padamsee,  Babu Xavier,  Debanjan Roy,  Bhupen Khakar,  M Sivanesan,  Syed Haider Raza,  Arpita (Gayatri Sinha) Singh,  Tyeb Mehta,  Krishen Khanna,  Maqbool Fida Husain,  Manjit Bawa,  Jogen Chowdhury,  Krishna Hawlaji Ara,  Kattingeri Krishna Hebbar,  K Laxma Goud,  Francis Newton (FN) Souza,  Ganesh Pyne,  Paramjit Singh,  B Prabha,  Vasudeo S Gaitonde,  Jamini Roy,  Abdur Rahman Chughtai