Unknown Artist
91 x 91 cm; 36 x 36 in
`Colour for me holds a vibrant connotation, I remember when I was in Paris I learnt through the many relationships and the experiences that as artists we must endow the compositions that we create with a harmonious order and a sense of permanence. In later years, perhaps now at this stage I realize that the quality of harmony is a ceaseless phenomenon, it needs unceasing exploration of complex interrelationships.? What should one make of this moment? It seems a token, its minimalist lyricism chiming not too easily with the chic architecture of the new age, a spectacular no man?s land of materialism and selfishness. `I understood colour for its syntax of transparency; I combined its foundation with the divisionism applications of pure colour and moody atmospherics. The landscape has now for me become the dynamic form of a layered experience of perception as well as memory, in which the elements of the landscape appear to merge into surroundings, and the human presence is felt more by its absence as well as the little inclusions of colour that I want to bring to the canvas.? Ram Kumar, Vadehra Art Gallery, March 2005.