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Laxma Goud was born in 1940 in Nizampur, Andhra Pradesh,
India. He studied at the Government School of Art and
Architecture Hyderabad and graduated with a diploma in
drawing and painting in 1963. He also studied Mural
paintings under Prof. K. G. Subramanyan, from Maharaja
Sayajrao University, Baroda (1965). A master draftsman, he
displays his versatility over a range of mediums, from
etching, gouache and pastels, to glass paintings. Over the
years he is known to have moved from one medium to another
with elan. His fellow colleague T. Vaikuntam, in one of his
interviews, reminisces that it was Laxma Goud who introduced
him to the art of sketching and made him aware of the
possibilities of this medium.
Laxma Goud captures the rustic villagers, the common men and
women in their daily chores in a raw and potent way. The
portraits of men and women represent the dynamic Indian
ethos rather than particular individual identities. The
power of his lines in black and white or in color is
eloquent in its expression. A recurrent theme with Laxma is
that of the erotic, treated as an active and powerful aspect
of male and female sexuality. Unlike the lovers of Khajuraho,
Laxma’s ’nayaks’ and ’nayikas’ are rustic and vivacious in
their appeal.
 The
most recent of Laxma’s works are miniatures, but so far,
most of Laxma’s works are on the smaller format. That is
another aspect important to the artist’s style, it almost
seems as though he wants the viewer to be intimate with his
creations.
He says "I have been drawing people for the last thirty
years. I had no feeling for colour. Someone gifted a water
colur set, i got tempted to colour my drawings, my human
figures got seduced into festive mood".
In 1974 he set up a print studio in Hyderabad where D.
Devraj and D. Reddy were associated. He has participated at
the ’Prints Exhibition’ at the Royal Academy of Art , London
during the India Festival and in 2000 he was invited for Y2k
International Exhibition Of Prints, National Taiwan Arts.
He has exhibited in India and internationally. His work has
been commissioned by Grindlays Bank, Chennai. His
Collections are with several collectors all over the world
and include Deavida & Chester Herwitz family collection,
gifted to Peabody Essex Museum; Masanori Fukuoka & Glenbarra
Art Museum, Japan and National Gallery Of Modern Art, New
Delhi amongst others. |
