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Achuthan Kudallur

For Achuthan Kudallur, painting was not a dialogue or conversation, but a communion with colour and sometimes, even a battle. From his early expressionist journeys he comes to this tranquil sense of joy in light and colour, of which one can see traces in his later abstract work - a better medium for self-expression to him. Kudallur was a formidable figure in the contemporary abstract art movement and highly revered in contemporary art circles in South India. His canvases throb and are alive with the joyous, riotous spreads of colour, at times melancholic, even tragic.
For Achuthan Kudallur, painting was not a dialogue or conversation, but a communion with colour and sometimes, even a battle. From his early expressionist journeys he comes to this tranquil sense of joy in light and colour, of which one can see traces in his later abstract work - a better medium for self-expression to him. Kudallur was a formidable figure in the contemporary abstract art movement and highly revered in contemporary art circles in South India. His canvases throb and are alive with the joyous, riotous spreads of colour, at times melancholic, even tragic.…
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