Laxman Aelay
Known for paintings of Telangana villagers in bold colour and for designing the Telangana state logo in 2014.
Photograph: Pranayraj1985, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Born
- 1965
- Birthplace
- Kadirenigudem, Nalgonda district, Telangana
- Medium
- Acrylic and ink on canvas, Monochrome painting, Digitally altered photographic prints, Book illustration
Laxman Aelay is an Indian painter from Telangana, born in Kadirenigudem in Nalgonda district, commonly given as 1965. He comes from a family of weavers. He began as a signboard painter and worked as a cut and paste artist for the Telugu daily Eenadu before becoming known as an illustrator and book designer.
His paintings draw on the lives of the villagers of Kadirenigudem, often shown against the backdrop of their homes. He has worked in monochrome and, in his Poolamma series, in hyperrealism with bold colour. He held his first solo show at the ICCR Art Gallery in Hyderabad in 1999 and received an award from the Hyderabad Art Society in 1995. In 2014 he designed the logo of the newly formed state of Telangana.
A life, dated
AB / TIMELINE
- 1965
Born on 8 June in Kadirenigudem, Nalgonda district.
- 1987
Won a bronze medal at a painting competition in Nalgonda.
- 1993
Won a gold medal at a painting competition in Amalapuram.
- 1995
Received an Appreciation Award from the Hyderabad Art Society.
- 1999
Held his first solo exhibition at the ICCR Art Gallery, Hyderabad.
- 2006
Exhibited works made from photographs of his village Kadirenigudem.
- 2014
Designed the logo of the newly formed state of Telangana.
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AB / WORKS
Devotional & narrative
The flute and the parrot
Prasad KVS. A blue figure, built from sharp-edged planes of ultramarine, scarlet and deep navy, plays a long bamboo flute while a green parrot perches on a red drape at the upper lef.
Devotional & narrative
Ganesha and his attendants on saffron
Ramesh Gorjala. A great saffron face, the eye wide open and the blue ornamental ear lifted like a flame, fills the canvas.
Abstract
A turquoise river and two gold forms
Prakash Bal Joshi. A wide landscape of water and sky worked almost entirely in turquoise, from pale aquamarine to deep ultramarine.
Figures & portraits
Embrace beneath the banyan
Sanjeev Sonpimpare. Two figures, one in deep ultramarine and one in pale cornflower, hold each other in the foreground, their forms cut from flat colour with scratches of red showing through.
All works Abstract Figures Devotional Landscape Ravi Varma Press stones