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K. G. Subramanyan

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K. G. Subramanyan
  • Date of Birth:
    , 1924
  • Place of Birth:
    Kerala, India
  • Sex:
    Male
  • Nationality:
    Indian
  • Education:

    Presidency College, Madras
    M.S. University in Baroda

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K. G. Subramanyan

    Career

    K. G. Subramanyan

    Awards

    K. G. Subramanyan

    Padma Shree in 1975

    Kalidas Samman in 1981

    Honorory D. Litt. (Honoris Causa) from the Rabindra Bharati University in 1992

    Made Fellow of Kerala Lalit Kala Akademi in 1993

    Honorory D. Litt. (Honoris Causa) from the Banaras Hindu University in 1997

    Manaviyam Ravi Varma Award from Government of Kerala, in 2001

    Kala Ratna from Lalit Kala Academy, in 2005
    Padma Bhushan in 2006

    Trivia

    K. G. Subramanyan
    • As an artist he is known as one of the most versatile practitioners, having done works, apart from painting, in the traditions of mural, various craft traditions of India, toy-making, pottery, illustration & design, terracotta sculpture.
    • Subramanyan is as revered as an artist as he is as a theoretician and art historian.
    • In 1951 he became a lecturer at the Faculty of Fine Arts in M.S. University in Baroda.
    • During freedom struggle he was actively involved and was known for his Gandhian ideology.
    • One of most revered of living painters in India, often drawing comparison with Tyeb Mehta and M.F. Husain, he is celebrated as much for his wide-ranging scholarship as for his visual satires.
    • Is a contemporary Indian painter.

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