Paintings of K. Muralidharan, collected and curated by M.D. Muthukumaraswamy.

 

K. Muralidharan (b. 1954) lives and works in Chennai. A Diploma and a post-Diploma in Painting from the Government College of Arts and Crafts, Chennai, was followed by grants to the Stockholm College of Art in 1989 and to Glasgow School in 1993. According to the artist his works and his own world, 'revolve around the close confines of designed surfaces made of pictorial elements he inherited from the land of his birth.' His work is inspired by myth and folklore with humanised deities and animal forms appearing as recurring motifs.