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Ram Kumar (23 September 1924 – 14 April 2018) was an Indian artist and writer who has been described as one of India's foremost abstract painters. He was associated with the Progressive artists' group along with greats like M.F. Hussain , Tyeb Mehta , S.H. Raza . [8]
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 is India’s most distinguished and admired artist. This site is an online resource for Ram Kumar’s biography, artwork, paintings, articles, awards, videos and books.
Ram Kumar, an artist of rare talent and sensitivity, was one of the great pioneers of Indian art. Kumar displayed a concern with the plight of the individual through both his figurative and abstract paintings.
Some of his most recent exhibitions include ‘Split Visions Abstractions in Modern Indian Painting’, Aicon Gallery, New York, 2016 and retrospectives including ‘Masterpieces of Indian Modern Art’, DAG Modern, 2016; ‘After Midnight: Indian Modernism to Contemporary India, 1947-1997’, Queens Museum, Queens, 2015; amongst others.
Ram Kumar’s art, which has proceeded through an alternation of joyous expressivity and brooding reticence, plays out a crucial polarity of emphasis in the context of Indic culture: that between samsara, the sensual participation in the world of events, and nirvana, the ascetic blowing-out of desire.
Ram Kumar has been one of the first Indian artists to give up figurativism for abstract art. He was associated with the Progressive artist’s group along with Husain, Raza, Ara, Souza amongst others.
Apr 19, 2018 · From the buoyant golden and blue strokes of the countries and their cities he explored, to the melancholic, earthy sweeps of ochre, viridian and aquamarine seen in his pivotal journey to Varanasi in the 60s—artist Ram Kumar’s (1924-2018) stories are replete with visual metaphors.
The rooftops and landscapes that were backdrops in Kumar's figurative paintings soon took center stage as he dispersed the people. He still expressed emotions of loneliness, alienation, and orphanhood but in the image of the landscapes. In 1959, Kumar visited Shimla and spent 8 months there.
Apr 15, 2018 · Ram Kumar was an accidental artist. His early days were as a banker and later as a journalist with a Delhi newspaper. In the meantime, he had joined Sarada Ukil’s evening art classes.
