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Initially expressing himself through a figurative idiom and then a largely architectonic one, Ram Kumar only turned to complete abstraction in the late 1960s. Over the next five decades, these abstract works came to represent the artist's journey towards what he termed 'the language of painting.' Although devoid of human and architectural forms, paintings like the present lot are firmly rooted in Kumar's experiences of nature.

In the... Initially expressing himself through a figurative idiom and then a largely architectonic one, Ram Kumar only turned to complete abstraction in the late 1960s. Over the next five decades, these abstract works came to represent the artist's journey towards what he termed 'the language of painting.' Although devoid of human and architectural forms, paintings like the present lot are firmly rooted in Kumar's experiences of nature.

In the present lot, the artist finds the perfect middle ground between the representational landscape and the abstracted one through the layered application of earth tones on canvas. Kumar's landscapes evoke both memories and reflection, without specifying the places he paints. "The browns, greys and blues, the occasional green or orange, are areas of positive sensation. They are also premises of suggestion - indicative of landforms, stretches of water and sky, passage of clouds, valley, ranges of hills, qualities of light, bonded together in a palpable mood." (Richard Bartholomew quoted in Gagan Gill ed., Ram Kumar: A Journey Within, New Delhi: Vadehra Art Gallery, 1996, p. 154)

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