K. G. Subramanyan
| K. G. Subramanyan | |
|---|---|
| Born |
15 February 1924 Kuthuparamba, Kerala, India |
| Died | 29 June 2016 (aged 92) Vadodra, Gujarat, India |
| Education | Visva-Bharati University |
| Alma mater | Visva-Bharati University |
| Occupation | Painter, sculptor, muralist, printmaker, writer, academic |
| Movement | Contextual Modernism, Baroda Group |
| Awards | Padma Shree, Kalidas Samman, Padma Bhushan, Padma Vibhushan |
Kalpathi Ganpathi "K.G." Subramanyan (15 February 1924 – 29 June 2016) was an Indian artist. He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan in 2012.
Subramanyan was born in 1924 in Kuthuparamba in Kerala, India, and initially studied economics at Presidency College, Madras. During the freedom struggle he was actively involved and was known for his Gandhian ideology. He was even imprisoned and later banned from joining government colleges during the British Rule. The turning point of his life, as an artist, came when he visited Santiniketan to study in Kala Bhavan, the art faculty of Visva Bharati University, in the year 1944. Under the tutelage such pioneers of modern Indian art as Nandalal Bose, Benode Behari Mukherjee and Ramkinkar Baij, Subramanyan studied there till 1948.
In 1951 he became a lecturer at the Faculty of Fine Arts in M.S. University in Baroda. He went to study briefly in London at the Slade School of Art as a British Council scholar in 1956. While having already gone back to Baroda as a professor in painting and continuing there, he did a short stint in New York as a Rockefeller Fellow in 1966. In 1980, Subramanyan went back to Santiniketan to teach in his alma mater Kala Bhavan, Visva Bharati University, in his capacity as a professor in painting, which he continued till he retired in 1989. In the same year he was made a Professor Emeritus of Visva Bharati.
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