The Art Of K. Laxma Goud
Text by Susan S Bean
Seductive lines, rich and luscious colours, rural settings, images throbbing with life and libidnal forces are the distinct feature of his art. Laxma has worked in a variety of mediums - drawings, paintings, prints, etchings, frescoes, murals and sculptures.
At the center of Laxma Goud's art lies the magic of making, an intense, passionate communion with tools, techniques and materials, as motivating and sustaining as the figures that emerge from burin, pencil, ink, watercolor, paper and terracotta. The arc of Laxma's practice has had strong anchors. A passion for line, the making of line as a sensual act, a reverence for color, an awe for the power and pleasures of sexuality and the unwavering presence of sensuality in media and process.
With text written by Susan S. Bean, Curator of South Asian Art at The Peabody Essex Museum, USA, this book features some of the most outstanding works produced over the 50 years of his career including the ones that belong to the Chester and Davida Herwitz Collection at The Peabody Essex Museum.
Susan S. Bean curates South Asian art at the Peabody Essex Museum where the collection focuses on the modern era, from the colonial period to the present and includes the Chester and Davida Herwitz Collection of modern and contemporary Indian art. Susan has produced a series of exhibitions and publications on 20th century Indian art, including Painting the Modern in India (2010); ReVisions: Indian Artists Engaging Traditions (2009); Gateway Bombay (2007), Epic India: M. F. Husain's Mahabharata Project (2006), Exposing the Source: Paintings by Nalini Malani (2005); and Timeless Visions: Visions of India (2003); Contemporary Art of India from the Herwitz Collection (1999). Her book, Yankee India: American Commercial and Cultural Encounters with India in the Age of Sail, 1784 - 1860 (2001), builds on the museum's collection and archive to illuminate the beginnings of American interest in the art and culture of the subcontinent. In January 2013 her exhibition Midnight to the Boom: Painting in India after Independence opens at the Peabody Essex Museum and for the first time in America showcases the three generations of artists who lead India's golden age of modernist painting.
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