Osian's Auction Catalogue India The Passionate Detachment | February 2001

THE PASSIONATE DETACHMENT 172 The Abstract-Figurative Dilemma Artistic abstraction presented the Indian artists with a great chance to reveal original and unique insights into human life and its consciousness. Only a few great artistic minds such as V.S.Gaitonde, K.C.S.Paniker, S.H.Raza, Biren De, Ambadas & J. Swaminathan sustained the battle, for despite a deep and long tradition of philosophical abstraction, the daily overwhelming presence of the human form and our imitated gods, allows little space for denying the inspiration from the omnipresent figure. Towards Artistic Abstraction The Cholamandal Experiment Representing the Figure through Portraiture The Female Form as Focus The Narrative Inspired by Religion & Myth