Born on 21st August 1940 in Nizampur, Andhra Pradesh, Kalal Laxma Goud is a renowned Indian painter, printmaker, and draughtsman.
K Laxma Goud displays a mastery over a range of mediums from printmaking, drawing, watercolour, gouache, and pastels to glass painting and sculpture in bronze and terracotta.
Laxma Goud’s obsession with the erotic can be traced back to his life in the village where he found an absence of taboos and inhibitions about sex, which were so predominant in the urban society.
This unriddled sex life in the village finds expression in a diverse array of Laxma Goud sculptures that display explicit portrayal of sexual play without any symbolic undertones.
Laxma Goud artworks also detail entwined human, animal and nature forms in figuratively cohabiting postures and the invocation of the animus in nocturnal lights.
The figure of the goat – a traditional symbol of sexuality across cultures – both full-uddered and with erect penises is a signature motif in Laxma Goud paintings.
Some of his most valuable works also include his depictions of mythological figures, for instance, his painting Untitled (Shiv Parivar) portrays the family of the Hindu god Shiva in vivid colours.