He became the first contemporary Indian artist to use subject of female nudes as a while not straying from the limits of naturalism. His work was rooted in the delight of ingenuity, focusing on female nudes, still life and human figures. Ara was largely influenced by Bnghamummer’s style of painting. He was fascinated byWalter Langhammer'sbold impastos, in an expressionist manner of Kokoschka. Ara did not have any formal training and he was encouraged by Langhammer to execute his works uninhibitedly.Still life as a genre of painting in India was broughtinto existence by K.H. Ara. It was around the late 1940s and all through the 1950s that he continued to make varied substantive studies of objects. He experiments with bowls, fruits and vases with flowers were to develop into a beautiful composition to which he gave a distinctive style. A deliberate roughness in both drawing and applying paint is the most striking aspect of his still life works. Many of his paintings are characterised by depiction female nudes and still life. He constantly experimented with pair to acquire what he describes as the honest expression of form. His still life has a rough, uneven and jagged-back and paid minimum attention to details. He painted mostly in water colors but he evolved his own technique which he achieved by applying colors straight from the tube and spreading in a day impasto method. There was also French influence on Ara’s work. Ara’s mostly nudes are painted in a classical posture between classicism and modernism.