K S Kulkarni: From Light to Darkness

As and when any of us has had the privelege of closely observing the person of an artist, as of experiencing his works over the decades, it is not all that easy to speak of him, or his work, in a brief, hasty note. This is especially true in the case of the late K.S. Kulkarni who was reticent by nature even though his activities on behalf of art and art education took him far and wide. As a start, then (that is before making any comment on his works in the present show) what immediately comes to my mind are certain possible object lessons culled from a…