Fisher Women
Title Fisher Women
Accession Number acc-no-02004
Museum Name National Gallery of Modern Art, Bengaluru
Gallery Name Reserve Collection
Object Type Painting
Medium Tempera on Paper
Main Artist K. Srinivasalu
Artist's Nationality India
Artist's Life Date / Bio Data

1923-1995

Country India
Brief Description

Three fisher-women painted in side profile, this painting elegantly uses the folk painting traditions such as the outward protruding eye, the simplistic figurative drawings, the flat application of the color, and so on. The painting shows an affinity towards both the folk technique as well as the rural landscape in depicting the fisher folk.

It is interesting to note how the women's eyes, the decorative patterns of the landscape, and the fish in the seascape blend in to form a larger statement on the overall image.