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'Artists on Art' - A Ramachandran speaks on Thursday, 5 November 2009

Mon, 11/02/2009 - 06:35 — SxR

Professor A Ramachandran

will speak about his art

and

Professor R Siva Kumar

will be in dialogue with the artist

at 6 pm on Thursday, 5 November 2009

at Kaustubh Auditorium, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi - 110001

RSVP: 011-23009200

"Bahurupi" (Myriad Forms) exhibition extended till Monday, 9 November 2009

Wed, 10/21/2009 - 12:43 — SxR

An exhibition of recent works by A. Ramachandran opens on Sunday, 25 October 2009 at 5 pm at:

Lalit Kala Academi,
Rabindra Bhavan,Ferozeshah Road, New Delhi – 110001.Telephone: 91-11-23009200

The exhibition has been extended till Monday, 9 November 2009. This exhibition has been conceptualized by Rupika Chawla and Ranesh Ray. It is presented by Vadehra Art Gallery.

'Light of the Earth of India', June 2009

Sat, 07/04/2009 - 16:27 — SxR

This exhibition consists of original illustrations from picture books conceived and illustrated by Ramachandran.

It also showcases his collection of folk paintings, like Madhubani paintings, woodblock print illustrations of Ramayana epic, Yantra diagrams and shadow puppets, which have provided some of the influences for picture books created by Ramachandran.

See original illustrations of books including ‘Ten Wood Cutters’, ‘Hanuman’, ‘The Song of Circles’, and ‘Land of Romol’.

The artist will give a lecture on folk paintings and his picture books in early June.

The exhibition continues till 28 June 2009 at the Kijo Picture Book Village at Miyazaki prefecture in Japan.

Kijo Picture Book Village (Kijo Ehon No Sato)
475 Ishigouchi, Kijo-machi, Koyugun, Miyazaki-ken, Japan
Phone: (81) 983-39-1141
http://service.kijo.jp/~ehon/sub5.htm
Mrs. Kazuyo Mori, Secretary General, Kijo Picture Book Village

Vision of War

Tue, 06/02/2009 - 16:59 — SxR

Year:

1977

Medium:

Relief sculpture with bronze and zinc plates mounted on mirror

"When Mr Ramachandran was invited and commissioned to do some work for ITC Maurya his brief was typically the Mauryan theme. And when he reflected on King Ashoka and the Kalinga war, he thought "No war is a single war. All war is the same. Human suffering is same."

He went on to do two major works for us – one is the most striking sculpture in brass and zinc of Ashoka which is placed at the main lobby and the other one is oil on canvas in three panels "The Vision of War"...

When we asked him to describe the sculpture and his thought process behind this work he said, “I have used Ashoka’s own inscription against the war and converted these inscription into his body. It’s a well thought out mural. I did the actual work in Garhi studio. I was much younger then and I used various elements in this sculpture”

This is a very important sculpture. Very different elements have gone into making it. What he used in making this zinc and brass work are elements he used in paintings. Ashoka’s hands, head and feet are golden. This element has reference to temple deities and it clearly shows that the artist was influenced by them."

(This excerpt has been taken from an article on the artist and his mural commission for Maurya Sheraton hotel in New Delhi called 'Vision of War'. See 'A Ramachandran', Zest Lounge, 1 May 2009, http://www.zestlounge.in/CommentArticle.aspx?id=50)

Colors of a Lost Dream

Mon, 01/19/2009 - 02:18 — SxR

"...the two-volume life-in-art of painter A. Ramachandran co-published by the National Gallery of Modern Art and Vadehra Art Gallery is a definite collectible...the visual material used in these well-printed books is extensive and interesting, from personal photographs to the repros of works from succeeding stages of the artist’s life....Ramachandran’s woman figures have the most maliciously beautiful faces seen since Aubrey Beardsley and Gustav Klimt. But the delicate drawings of this decade tell us that the ardent dreamer of long ago lives on beneath."

Read more of this review by Renuka Narayanan of the book 'Ramachandran:A Retrospective (written by Prof. Siva Kumar):

http://www.indianexpress.com/oldstory.php?storyid=46512

(Source: Indian Express newspaper, 9 May 2004)

Art of Ramachandran

'Artists on Art' - A Ramachandran speaks on Thursday, 5 November 2009

"Bahurupi" (Myriad Forms) exhibition extended till Monday, 9 November 2009

'Light of the Earth of India', June 2009

Vision of War

Colors of a Lost Dream

Oil Paintings

Water Colors

Sculptures

Other Creations

Writings