RAM KUMAR (INDIA, 1924–2018) – ABSTRACT ARCHITECTURAL COMPOSITION, PEN AND INK ON PAPER

AN EXPRESSIVE ABSTRACT COMPOSITION BY RAM KUMAR EXECUTED IN PEN AND INK ON PAPER, DEPICTING A FRAGMENTED ARCHITECTURAL LANDSCAPE THROUGH BOLD LINEAR STRUCTURES AND RHYTHMIC STROKE WORK. THE ARTWORK FEATURES OVERLAPPING PLANES, RECTILINEAR FORMS, AND HATCHED TEXTURES THAT SUGGEST URBAN SPACES AND BUILT ENVIRONMENTS REDUCED TO THEIR ESSENTIAL GEOMETRIES.

THE ARTIST’S DISTINCT MODERNIST LANGUAGE IS EVIDENT IN THE ECONOMY OF LINE AND THE DELIBERATE USE OF NEGATIVE SPACE, CREATING A SENSE OF DEPTH AND SPATIAL TENSION. SUBTLE VARIATIONS IN LINE WEIGHT AND DIRECTION ADD MOVEMENT AND DYNAMISM TO THE COMPOSITION. THIS PEN AND INK WORK EXEMPLIFIES RAM KUMAR’S EXPLORATION OF FORM AND STRUCTURE, MAKING IT A SIGNIFICANT AND COLLECTIBLE EXAMPLE OF INDIAN MODERN ABSTRACT ART.