A common man who is a novice to the world of painting will be attracted by Raja Ravi Varma’s painting. Now, M F Hussain is better known for his painting controversies. A novice to the world of painting will need to use his/her brain to understand Hussain’s painting.
So it is worthwhile comparing the two painters - one who is among the greatest painters in
Quite often the Indian public makes an opinion without actually seeing the paintings. Either a person allies with the communists or the communalists or the pseudo-secularists.
Each reader of this blog post should compare the paintings and should come out with an independent opinion. And should learn to respect the opinion of another individual.
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We should be open-minded and view it from an artist's side...there's nothing wrong about presenting a traditional image from a new perspective...religious faiths should not interfere into an artist's domain...
There was no need for him to pick religious deities for art it insults and hurts our sentiments.
If these paintings(husains)obscene and controversial...in this comparison one should also compare the painting of lord shiva and his symbol the shiva linga(description provided on demand), the depictions on the khajuraho temples...india has never been so conservative and shy about the truths... as for raja ravi verma, he used actual models wearing the attires/ costumes available at that time .... and the gods he depicted are from sciptures written two-three thousands years ago
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so one should think that the artist according to his knowledge and research tries to depicts gods...there are no specific rules to depict the godly forms as all of them works of an artists imagination... whether it raja ravi verma or mf hussain or even the sculptor who designed the shiv linga...!!
and an artist has no religion..because he cannot be biased just as nature..
The depiction of some artists of the fairer gender is that of them being elegant, clothed, artistic, philosophical and intellectual. The depiction of some other artists of the same gender is of them being primitive, wild, sexual and naked. These are all but personal opinions on the canvas.
well we are indians , weather muslims or hindus, we still share a comman indian tradition, that is RESPECT, so even mf hussains views must be great, but then as aindian he should have the respect towards his fellow country men or religion & shouls not paint some thing which will hurt anyones belive, i donnt care about shiv sena or vhp, bcoz they need some material to play politics,
as of now , since mf hussain had appologiesd for his mistake we should have forrgiven him, but alas we lost him as to be known as an indian artists for ever,
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Can MF Hussain paint simmiallar related to Islam see the consequence..
I strongly oppose these paintings because not just it hurts Hindu's sentiments. It just violates our fundamental rights. He unneccesarily gets into the relious rights of others. Take the case of Blasphemy in Pakistan. We are not that much rude or insane. But we should give others respect. Other than this I like all his paintings. (Even I am an orthodox Muslim)
MF Hussain's painting of a nude goddess has forced us to think who god or a goddess is. Does it immediately become vulgar if the goddess is portrayed nude? Do we understand God? Who or what is god? Is it a picture? or is it something deeper than that? the people who make a big hullaballoo about this are those who don't truly understand god. I don't think Hussain's idea was to offend Hindus. I think he wanted us to think if he we truly understand god. To me the painting is neither beautiful nor ugly. It's art that makes you think again about your religious beliefs.
I do not consider MF Hussain as a artist. An artist is some one like leonardo da vinci, Raja Ravi Verma. He is a big nonsense and nuisance who tries to be in controversies to gain popularity. one should gain popularity by doing respectable contributions. rakhi sawant is a better person than MF Hussain as she has more clarity on her work than him. Any one can become MF Hussain by doing some paintings of some birds, horses, women and men (naked) and then the next step is to portray a religious figures form Kuran, gita, bible, buddha, Guru granth sahib (any religion) in a obscene/Vulgar/offending/disrespectful way. The controversial news the next day gives this fellow popularity but not respect. Respect is a fruit of hardwork. Any one who want to write on a person must fell that his time is worth writing on him either positive or negative. But I feel that i had wasted my energy on writing on this worthless person( MF Hussain). My intention of giving my opinion is to tell the readers that there is a lot of difference between artist and a person just plays with a brush and paints. Any person has alternatives of doing work. Can this MF Hussain earn a living for any other job? he cant and i dont expect him also! Worthless Creature!
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