For the last 50 years, Ram Kumar's paintings have continued to enthral and mystify viewers, in India and abroad be it his early figuratives, the sad, desolate and lost faces or his acclaimed Banaras series which brought an entirely original response to the 'elernal city' or the deeply meditative landscapes that were to follow in later years, bringing a certain inherent silence and 'awe' in his paintings--not to be found anywhere else in contemporary Indian art. ...
