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The six etchings created by Laxma Goud in 1975 reflect the artist's quintessential themes—sensuous encounters between men and women, their intimate connection with nature, and his unflinching engagement with the erotic. A master of printmaking, Goud used the medium of etching to explore line, texture, and form with remarkable precision, achieving both delicacy and raw vitality.
These works exemplify his distinctive visual language in which rustic village life and folk sensibilities are transformed into lyrical yet provocative images. The figures—male and female—appear in fluid relation to their environment, surrounded by flora and fauna, their bodies depicted with a directness that dissolves boundaries between human desire and natural fertility. The recurring phallic imagery, at once symbolic and overt, situates sexuality at the heart of existence, echoing both indigenous fertility cults and universal archetypes of creation.