Born in 1930, PV Janakiram graduated from the GovernmentCollege of Arts and Crafts, Chennai, with a Diploma in FineArts specializing in Sculpture in the year 1952 and alsoreceived an Honorary Diploma in Sculpture from theHungarian Government in 1973A student of KCS Paniker and S Dhanapal, Janakiram was an important member of the Madras Art Movement When the agenda of nativism in art was propounded by KCS Paniker in the 1960s, the pioneering sculptor S Dhanapal also initiated amove towards formulating sculpting practices and creationsbased on local folk culture Janakiram studied the traditional sculpture of the South, the Kavachas was a special point of interest for him and he therefore studied its composition assiduously Influenced by the traditional temple sculptures of South India, he developed a distinctive idiom, in which he used beaten sheet metal decorated with repousse work to render two-dimensional, frontal portrait sculptures Janakiram maintained the infusion of indigenous imagery, yet balanced the presence of contemporary art canons and sensibility as well PV Janakiram combined repousse with applique and incorporated wires and cables by welding them to the surface of the final metal creation He diligently executed interesting shapes on the surface, heavily influence by ingeniously formsPV Janakiram, along with Dhanaraj Bhagat, were responsiblefor popularizing the two-dimensional or "frontal sculpture"He received National Awards from the Lalit Kala Akademi in1964 and 1966 respectively, a Silver Medal from theHyderabad Art Society in 1965 and the Grand Prix at the 2ndBiennale at Budapest, Hungary, in 1973 Janakiram`s work ispart of several public collections, such as the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi; the Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi; Mahindra & Mahindra, Mumbai; the Government Museum, Chennai; the Punjab Museum, Chandigarh; the GandhiMuseum, Chennai and the Taj Group of Hotels The artistpassed away in Chennai, where he