K Laxma Goud Indian , b. 1940

Born in 1940 in Nizampur in Andhra Pradesh, India, the artist he studied drawing and painting at the Government College of Fine Arts and Architecture, Hydrabad. Goud went on to study Mural Painting under K G Subramanyan at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajiroa University of Baroda. 

 

Goud has experimented with various types of media, from traditional oils, to watercolor, pen, ink, colored pencil and etchings in his two-dimensional work, to a series of bronze and terra cotta sculptures he produced near the turn of the millennium. Laxma Goud began to interpret his childhood memories of rural and tribal vivacity through an urban grid in which surreal, libidinal tones mingled with fantasy and poetry. He created masterful small paintings of village life in a palette of monochrome grays. A recurrent theme with the artist is that of the erotic, treated as an active and powerful aspect of male and female sexuality and existence. His works are mosly rustic, raw & visually exotic showing spontinity and uninhibited passion. 

 

He has had several solo shows throughout his career in Mumbai, New York, New York. He has also participated in several group exhibitions in many countries. He was honoured with a Padma Shri is 2016 by The Government of India. The artist lives in Hyderabad, India.