Ganesh Pyne

Ganesh Pyne as an artist has dabbled with various media. Be it watercolors or gouache, this master is equally adept in all painting styles. From watercolor in his initial phase as an artist, Pyne turned to gouache and then tempera since the mid-'60s. And from this very period one can see a distinct paradigm shift in his paintings. Most of the human figures were skeletal while animal showed their fangs and claws. His subjects were either hunters or prey. A suffocating darkness dominated his canvases. There were certain recurrent motifs like boats, bits of bone, wood and other debris, dark doors and windows, birdman, Chaitanya, the leader of the Bhakti movements, animals, daggers, and so on.