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Tuesday 22 May 2012

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Achuthan Kudallur

 

"The terracotta figurines of elephants or horses that are placed in front of the ayanars have had a lasting impression on almost all artists of Tamil Nadu. You can spot stylised interpretations in the background of most works of art.”

 

Born in 1945 in Kerala, National Award winner Kudallur has spent the formative years of his life as an artist in Chennai, which has encouraged several artists from around the country. An abstract painter, Kudallur is almost entirely self-taught. His brilliant interpretation of colour is “inspired by the power of Van Gogh’s yellow”.

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Art in Chennai

One of the paintings by Achutan Kudallur

 

 

 

Chennai has produced artists of renown – the late Adimoolam and KCS Panicker, who was a key player in setting up the artists commune at Cholamandalam, PV Janakiraman, RB Bhaskaran, P Gopinath, C Douglas, the late Dhanapan, the late Redappa Naidu, RM Palaniappan, George K, N Ramachandran, P Gopinath, Premlatha Seshadri, Kumaresan, Rajshekhar Nair, Benitha Perciyal, M Siva, the multi-faceted Thota Tharrani and photographers Sharad Haksar, Varun Gupta, G Venket Ram, Monika Ghurade and Bharath Ramamrutham.

 

“Art in Tamil Nadu has been around almost forever; you only have to look at the sculptures on the gopurams of temples and the ayanars in villages (each village in Tamil Nadu has an ayanar, the diety who safeguards them). One could say that art grew from these early practices. The terracotta figurines of elephants or horses that are placed in front of the ayanars have had a lasting impression on almost all artists of Tamil Nadu. You can spot stylised interpretations in the background of most works of art.”

 

 

 

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