K Laxma Goud

Hyderabad
Statement

Laxma Goud is an artist who unabashedly explored the erotic while placing it within the quotidian as well as the rustic. Born in 1940 in Nizampur, Goud derives inspiration from his childhood in rural Andhra Pradesh, India. He grew up watching traditional leather puppetry and creation of terracotta and the relaxed environs of his childhood with its unbridled vivacity permeated him to later be translated into art on canvas. K. Laxma Goud received his diploma from the Government College of Art and Architecture in Hyderabad, India, in 1963. He went on to study mural painting and printmaking at M.S. University in Baroda, from 1963 to 1965. But he made a return back to Nizampur, and this return had a huge impact on his art.


Goud was impressed by the ribald humour and earthy vitality of the villagers which was devoid of any trace of self consciousness. The close society, the intimacy with animals, fields and farm fostered in him a sense of harmonious unity. This he found to be in stark contrast to the rigid puritanic sexual mores of Indian middle class in the cities. He captures this sexuality in his painting with a sense of humour , where he transforms his characters from man into goat, goat into woman, and man and woman peer lustfully at each other. He also places them within a landscape that is typically lush and wild, where men and women are clad in vivid clothes, bejeweled in traditional tribal ornaments, shape shifting into the surroundings and each other. While Goud portrays the quotidian life of village folk, it is painted with an element of fantasy and an underlying libidinal force. As Goud has said, “there is eroticism in nature itself.”

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WORKS
GS01495

30 x 36 inches

Acrylic on Canvas
GS01492

30 x 36 inches

Acrylic on Canvas
GS01480

60 x 48 inches

Acrylic on Canvas
GS01469

12 x 16 inches

Watercolour on Paper
GS01380

11 x 12 inches

Original etching plate & print on paper
GS01376

7 x 7 inches

Pen and ink on paper
GS01374

7 x 7 inches

Pen and ink on paper
GS01355

13 x 13 inches

Mixed medium on board
GS01332

12 x 9 inches

Pen and ink on paper
GS01313

6 x 6 inches

Mixed medium on board
GS01300

11 x 15 inches

Drawing on paper board
GS01296

5 x 7 inches

Original etching plate & print on paper
GS01295

9 x 12 inches

Drawing on paper board
GS01138

20 x 14 inches

Original etching plate & print on paper
GS01137

12 x 9 inches

Mixed medium on paper
GS0961

12 x 9 inches

Acrylic on Canvas
GS0538

10 x 14 inches

Mixed medium on paper
GS0537

10 x 14 inches

Pen and ink on paper
GS0536

9 x 12 inches

Mixed medium on rice paper