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Achuthan Kudallur’s canvases are luminous terrains, vibrant fields of color where emotion, memory, and nature converge with quiet force. Known for his instinctive handling of chroma, Kudallur was a self-taught colorist whose bold, often fiery palettes defined a singular voice in Indian abstraction. His celebrated red paintings, charged with pulses of blue, yellow, or green, are not declarations but meditations, allowing color to breathe, throb, and settle across the surface like a living organism. In his hands, abstraction became not a retreat from the world but a deeply personal engagement with it, through form, hue, and the shifting weight of silence..........