K. C. S. Paniker

Who was K. C. S. Paniker?

K. C. S. Paniker, was one of the best metaphysical and abstract painters in India, took to interpreting the country's age-old metaphysical and spiritual knowledge in the 60s, when Indian art was still under the influence of the western painters. "That was the time when a few Indian artists were trying to break out of this Western influence and establish an idiom and identity of their own," he once said.

In 1976, he was awarded the highest award of the Lalit Kala Akademi, India's National Academy of Art, the Fellow of the Lalit Kala Akademi for lifetime contribution.