Murals, a crossroad between culture and context:
A Quintessntial Vivid Thought perceived by the Veteran K G Subramanyan

Apurva Sinha

‘Everyday should be like a festival’exclaimed the great artist, thinker, muralist, painter, sculptor and above all, a socialist and Gandhian, Kalpathi Ganapathi Subramanyan popularly known as Manida who left his name ingrained with gold in the history of modern art in India. In his words, ‘if you have a 10 by 10 canvas, you should have a gesture that fills it from edge to edge and having not divided into various’, and so his artworks define vivid forms, surging strokes, expressive marks fused together with an effective narration. Studied under the reigning trinity of Benode Behari Mukherjee, Ram Kinkar Baij and Nandalal Bose (Mastermosai), he entered the Kala Bhavan at Santiniketan in 1944, three years after the death of Rabindranath Tagore,