K Laxma Goud

Kalal Laxma Goud, is an Indian painter, printmaker, and draughtsman who works in a variety of mediums including etching, gouache, pastel, sculpture and glass painting. Goud was born in Nizampur, Medak district in Telangana on August 21, 1940 to a family of toddy-brewers, K. Venka Goud and Anthamma Laxma Goud. He was schooled and encouraged to do further studies but a poor performance at matriculation made it difficult for him to join either the humanities or science so he landed up with art at the Government College of Art and Architecture, Hyderabad where he obtained a diploma in painting after 5 years of study. In 1963, he reached Baroda where he was exposed to contemporary art while learning traditional fresco techniques. Here, he came to realize ‘basic problems in life and art as an individual’ which brought him back to his village where he discovered what had eluded him during his schooling and study in art colleges. Goud was known for his depiction of eroticism in his works from early drawings which is consistent and clear since the beginning of his career in the 1970s. This obsession with the erotic can be traced back to his life in the village where his response to the erotic experience is most sensitive and vivid.