K. M. Adimoolam

Painter | India

Born in 1938

Died in 2008

« In 1959, he moved to Chennai where under the influence of the sculptor Dhanapal, he enrolled in the School of Arts and Crafts. »

He completed his education at the Government College of Arts & Craft, Chennai from 1960 to 1966. After completing his Diploma in Advanced Painting in 1966, Adimoolam started a series of black and white portraits of Mahatma Gandhi. He passed away in January 2008. Experience: Adimoolam’s canvases partake of his inner energy and vision, emerging as an extension of his mind that seems to put down color without referring to the artist himself. Adimoolam works with equal ease at drawing and painting, combining the two to produce a large body of work. Adimoolam interprets nature, making his paintings abstract renditions of the natural world purely through color. His sketches are a constant search for greater freedom of expression and serve as an outlet for his creative energy.

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In 1959, he moved to Chennai where under the influence of the sculptor Dhanapal, he enrolled in the School of Arts and Crafts

Painter | India

Born in 1938

Died in 2008

K. M. Adimoolam
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He completed his education at the Government College of Arts & Craft, Chennai from 1960 to 1966. After completing his Diploma in Advanced Painting in 1966, Adimoolam started a series of black and white portraits of Mahatma Gandhi. He passed away in January 2008. Experience: Adimoolam’s canvases partake of his inner energy and vision, emerging as an extension of his mind that seems to put down color without referring to the artist himself. Adimoolam works with equal ease at drawing and painting, combining the two to produce a large body of work. Adimoolam interprets nature, making his paintings abstract renditions of the natural world purely through color. His sketches are a constant search for greater freedom of expression and serve as an outlet for his creative energy.

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Prizes
  • Lalit Kala Academy, Chennai 1965
  • Lalit Kala Academy, Chennai 1964
  • Chitra Kala Parishad, Bangalore 1963
  • Lalit Kala Academy, Chennai 1963
  • National Award, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 1979
  • Lalit Kala Academy, Chennai 1978
  • Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata 1973
  • Hyderabad Art Society’s Award, Hyderabad 1965-66
  • Mumbai Art Society’s Award, Mumbai 1965-66
Solo Exhibitions
  • Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
  • Sarala Art Centre, Chennai
  • 100 Drawings on Gandhiji to Mark his Birth Centenary
  • First Solo Show, Chennai
  • Crimson Art Gallery, Bangalore
  • Retrospective Exhibition of Drawings (1962-1996) organized by Values Art Foundation, Chennai and jointly sponsored by Crimson Art Resource and Max Muller Bhavan, Bangalore
  • British Council, Chennai
  • ‘Lines form an Artistic Life’, The Drawings of Adimoolam, Book release and Exhibition, The Mint, New Delhi
  • ‘Abstract’, Art Motif, New Delhi
  • Solo Show, Saffronart, New York as well as Online Show at Saffronart.com
  • Berkeley Square Gallery, London
  • India Fine Arts, Mumbai
Group Exhibitions
  • Sakshi Gallery, Chennai
  • ''Sketch Book Series'' (drawings) Sarala Art Centre Chennai and Kritika Art Gallery, Bangalore
  • Art Heritage Show, New Delhi
  • Seven South Indian Painters, Australia
  • Twenty Five Years of Indian Art, New Delhi
  • Art-Motif, New Delhi
  • ‘Six Indian Artists’, London by Maya Art Gallery
  • ‘Small Formats’, a group show of 6 artists at Chennai, Bangalore, Mumbai, and Hyderabad, by Art in Crafts, Bangalore
  • ''Major Trends'', group show to commemorate 50 years of India's Independence by Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
  • ‘Six Abstract Artists ‘ Show’, Akar Prakar Gallery, Kolkata
  • Art Motif, New Delhi
  • Organized by Vinyasa Gallery, Chennai at New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai
  • ‘Indian Artists’ Show’, Prakriti Gallery, Hong Kong

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