During my studies of four year Diploma course at Kalakshetra Foundation Collage of Fine Arts, Chennai, I had the opportunity to have (late) Prof. S. Dhanapal as my Guru and acquired adequate theoretical and practical knowledge in the field of painting. He used to interact with the students about the centuries old works of Great Artists and different methods adopted by them namely paintings of reality, Impressionism, Expressionism, and also eminent Artist of last/current centuries who have created modern techniques like Cubism and Contemporary Abstracts.