| In this monochromatic portrait of a scribe, Krishen Khanna paid homage to his grandfather, a manuscript copyist whom he never met. Largely self-taught, Khanna described himself as a “scribbler.” Throughout his career, he portrayed and affirmed the dignity of ordinary working-class people. He avoided abstraction because he believed “the person or the individual is being neglected—the person in a particular situation who is influenced by the conditions around.” 1 Instead, he endeavored to “emphasize the human beings caught up in their particular condition.”2
1 Krishen Khanna, quoted in “Krishen Khanna Artist Profile,” http://www.saffronart.com/artist/artistprofile.aspx?artistid=119
2 Ibid. |
