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In 1953 he moved to the Madras (Chennai) branch of his bank.
Krishen khanna biography of nancy
Over the next decade, he continued painting while working as a banker, before quitting his job in 1961 to become a full-time artist. The following year Khanna moved into his family home in a resettlement colony in New Delhi, and travelled to Japan under a Rockefeller fellowship.
The ink wash painting technique of sumi-e that he encountered there inspired him to create a body of work with ink on rice paper. He returned to India in 1964.
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Like most of his contemporaries in the PAG, Khanna had a strong commitment to figurative painting over abstraction. His works emphasise the human condition through figural depictions, drawing from everyday life as well as historical events.
His paintings portray a diverse range of subjects, from mythological figures to migrant labourers. In series such as Nocturne and paintings such as Rear View, Khanna focused on the lives of the migrants in Delhi.
From the 1980s onwards, he became