Pakhal Tirumal Reddy
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P T Reddy | |
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Born | Pakala Tirumal Reddy 4 January 1915 Annaram, Telangana, India |
Died | 1996 (aged 80–81) |
Language | Telugu |
Spouse | Yashoda Reddy |
Pakala Tirumal Reddy (1915–1996) was an Indian artist. He was the fifth child born to Ram Reddy and Ramanamma at
Work
P T Reddy played a role in the introduction and the evolution of the so-called "
Style
Reddy's paintings from the 1940s showed a struggle to maintain his identity as Indian by choosing subject matters that were undeniably Indian, yet depicted in a variety of modern European styles. After independence in 1947, many Indian artists including Reddy re-examined India's own art traditions. Reddy's work began growing more abstract and started to reflect Buddhist, Hindu and Tantric symbols and structures. However, many of his works are secular, modern abstractions that echo their original religious sources. Reddy engaged in dialogue with contemporary life and politics, in his Moon landing series, Nehru series, and other works touching on poverty, labor movements, and the social changes wrought by India's Independence. Because of his use of the neo-Tantric idiom, his explorations of historical concerns such as these became dehistoricized and abstracted. For artists struggling with being both modern and Indian in the 1960s and 1970s, neo-Tantric imagery provided a solution, indicating a path through the abstraction/representation bind and retaining both a universality of form and a specificity of national identity.
Awards and honors
Reddy won the Dolly Cursetji award for murals; Fellowship Government of India; 'Asthana Chitrakar' of the Andhra Pradesh Government, and member of the General Board of Indian Council for Cultural Relations. His works have been exhibited in the U.K., United States, Soviet Union, Sweden, Switzerland and Greece, and represented in the collections of the Royal Palace, London, N.G.M.A., New Delhi, and many other institutions. Reddy's books were Portfolio of Drawings, Paintings and Sculptures in 1941, Contemporary Painters in 1941, 40 Drawings in 1941, and Kiss Volume I in 1968. St.Mary College of Maryland has a collection of his works in the Boyden Art Gallery.
Reddy's major work was done during the freedom struggle, and then during the muscle-flexing that occurred while the
Exhibitions
1941 First group exhibition, Contemporary Painters of Bombay, Bombay
1940 First solo exhibition, Bombay Art Society Salon, Bombay
1943 Solo exhibition, Bombay Art Society Salon, Bombay
1955 Annual exhibition, Hyderabad
1956 Solo exhibition, Bombay
1957 Solo exhibition, All India Industrial Exhibition Grounds, Hyderabad
1968 1st International Triennale, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1976 Retrospective,
1983 Solo exhibition on Tantra, West Germany
1985-86 Neo Tantra: Contemporary Indian Painting, Fredrick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles
2004 Manifestations II, organised by Delhi Art Gallery, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai and Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
International exhibitions
Triennale India
Air India Exhibitions in Australia
British Art Festival
U K British Prints Biennale U K
Art Exhibition in Japan
Collections
Buckingham Palace, London
Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi
College of Art, New Delhi
Lalit Kala Akademi, Hyderabad
Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi
Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Government of India, New Delhi
Parliament House, New Delhi
Tata Fundamental Research Institute, Mumbai
Boyden Gallery, St. Mary's College of Maryland
Sources
- http://ngmaindia.gov.in/sh-pag.asp
- Appasamy, Jaya, ‘The Painters of the Transition’, 25 Years of Indian Art
- A history of Indian painting: the modern period By Krishna Chaitanya PP.261,279
- Painting Sculpture & Graphics in the Post-Independence Era, New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, (1972), pp. 6–9.
- Chakrabarty, Dipesh, Provincializing Europe, Princeton: Princeton University Press, (2000).
- Kapur, Geeta, ‘When Was Modernism in Indian Art?’: When Was Modernism? New Delhi: Tulika, (2000), pp. 297–323.
- Mookerjee, Ajit, Tantra Art: Its Philosophy and Physics, New Delhi:Ravi Kumar, (1966).https://www.amazon.com/Tantra-Art-Its-Philosophy-Physics/dp/8171672582
- https://openlibrary.org/books/OL2828821M/40_years_of_P.T._Reddy's_art.
- http://www.minusspace.com/tag/pt-reddy/
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