Images courtesy artist S. Nandagopal, of paintings and sketches by K.C.S. Paniker (1911–77, founder of the Progressive Painters Association in Madras, 1944; Principal, Government College of Arts and Crafts, Madras, 1962–76); founder of the artist's village Cholamandalam, 1966), that give a glimpse of how from his early landscapes, Paniker presented feeling as an abstraction in colours, and how he came to use diagrams, charts, and symbols to create a space of mathematical and scientific inquiry into the contexts of his primitive and folk canvases (he called his paintings ‘chitram ezhuthu’ or ‘the written picture’)
