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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2020}}[[Image:Statue of Rabindranath Tagore by K P Krishnakumar at Amar Kutir.jpg|thumb|Statue of [[Rabindranath Tagore]] by K. P. Krishnakumar at [[Amar Kutir]]|alt=]]'''K. P. Krishnakumar''' (1958 – 26 December 1989) was an Indian sculptor and [[Painting|painter]].<br />
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== Life ==<br />
Krishnakumar was born in [[Kuttippuram]], [[Kerala]].{{Citation needed|date=August 2020}} He attended [[Visva-Bharati University]].<ref>{{cite news|date=30 December 2012|title=The art contemporaries|work=[[The Hindu]]|url=https://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/art/the-art-contemporaries/article4252884.ece}}</ref><br />
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Krishnakumar helped to lead the [[Indian Radical Painters' and Sculptors' Association]], which ceased to exist following his death.{{Sfn|Jhaveri|2011|p=|pp=55, 58}}{{Sfn|Wyma|2007|p=11}}<br />
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He committed suicide on 26 December 1989.{{Sfn|Jhaveri|2011|p=55}}<br />
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== Art ==<br />
Krishnakumar's oeuvre includes a number of figures of young men, which Jhaveri suggests are self-portraits.{{Sfn|Jhaveri|2011|p=56}} Wyma argues that his ''Vasco da Gama'' (1985) explores themes of [[Colonial India|colonialism]].{{Sfn|Jhaveri|2011|p=122}} He was influenced by [[Pablo Picasso]], [[Auguste Rodin]], and director [[Jean-Luc Godard]].{{Sfn|Jhaveri|2011|p=56}}<br />
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Krishnakumar was exhibited at the [[Kochi-Muziris Biennale]] in 2013.<ref>{{cite news|date=18 February 2013|title=In memory of a talented artist|work=[[The New Indian Express]]|url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/kochi/2013/feb/18/in-memory-of-a-talented-artist-451503.html}}</ref><br />
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== Notes ==<br />
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== Sources ==<br />
*{{Cite journal|last=Jhaveri|first=Shanay|date=June 2014|title=Mutable Bodies: K.P. Krishnakumar and the Radical Association|url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/678339|journal=Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry|language=en|volume=36|pages=54–63|doi=10.1086/678339|issn=1465-4253}}<br />
*{{Cite thesis|title=The Discourse and Practice of Radicalism in Contemporary Indian Art 1960–1990|url=https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0055986|publisher=[[University of British Columbia]]|date=2007|first=Kathleen Lynne|last=Wyma|degree=PhD}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110723203504/http://mattersofart.net/lead8.html Shivaji Panikkar on the works of K. P. Krishnakumar]<br />
* [https://archive.is/20130411072351/http://english.manoramaonline.com/cgi-bin/MMOnline.dll/portal/ep/contentView.do?contentId=13100815&channelId=-1073865028&catId=-191621 Report on an exhibition of Krishnakumar's work] at ''[[Malayala Manorama]]'' <br />
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[[Category:Painters from Kerala]]<br />
[[Category:Indian male painters]]<br />
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