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In this painting, the artist has applied bright green and yellow in loosely defined areas. Pop influences and oriental calligraphic art are deployed by the artist  to depict an Indian mythological subject.\r\n\r\nRedappa Naidu was born in 1932. The artist trained at the Government College of Arts & Crafts in Madras. He held his first one-man show in 1958. He has exhibited in India and abroad and participated in the Biennale at Paris, 1965, Sao Paulo, 1969, the Kala Yatra Exhibitiion, London, 1972 and other group shows. He received the Lalit Kala Akademi Awards in New Delhi, Andhra Pradesh and Madras between 1962-1971. The artist died in 1999.","physicalDescription":"A bright canvas with greens and oranges applied thinly in loosely defined areas. Depicts two trees on which sit parrots. A hunter has just fired an arrow at the cover tree while a god sits on an elephant above. 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