STOP Mr. M.F. Husain?s onslaught on Hindus.

There is lot of apathy and un-assertiveness among the Sanatan Dharmi or so called Hindus, this must be dispensed with quickly or there is going to be no future for us. Art for the sake of Art is one thing but having no regard for the subject matter is another.

Even viewing these pictures brings strange unkind unsettling emotion in any ones mind Violence is wrong, any kind of violence is wrong whether it is emotional, physical or mental. Mr M.F. Husain is showing his aggressive violence towards a community of people who have pardoned every one for centuries for all kind of wrong doing.

Enough is enough. All these painting must be burned now and Mr. M.F. Husain should not be allowed to propagate such demeaning pictures. They are not work of Art.

Please circulate the petition to every one.

http://www.sanatan.org/en/05/Protests/MFHusain/petition.php?vtm=1132313026

Bal Ram Singh, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Indic Studies
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Art, by defintion, doesn't have much to do with facts - it is about creativity and imagination. If you are seeking facts in art, you are probably looking at the wrong place.

I'll give you the last word.

With due respect to your understanding on arts, I just want to clarify myself in my last posting. When an artist describes something based on what he read and heard, he is supposed to express what he knows from his understandings. He can certainly imagine beyond something which a normal mind like ours can imagine but that does not mean he is supposed to make unnecessary elaboration on things which he himself is not aware of.

Lets say a painter wants to paint a natural scene. He can apply all his imagination and creation on this. He can paint a mountain, or he can paint a clear blue sky or he can paint a cloudy sky with a rainbow or whatever a painter can think of.

But say if he wants to paint Monalisa, he will probably paint a smiling Monalisa posing for the picture. He cannot paint something weird like Da Vinci making love with her or something like that which the painter himself is not aware of but tends to imagine like that.

Goddess Sita sitting on the lap of Ravana is something which came from Hussain's imagination but has nothing to do with reality whatsoever. Its not like painting a woman in pain. You are painting an incident and you cannot think beyond truth.

Alright, I wasn't online for a while.

Captain, there is no doubt that an expression straight from the heart expressed in the form of any portrayal is an absolute piece of art. And it is neither religious nor political and not necessarily has to be of any culture. But, our brain is over our heart, and you use it for the perfection of your art. Not just to make it politically or religiously correct but also to make it more beautiful. So cap, you think he used his brain here just to make it beautiful? I agree the pictures are thought provoking and more abstract but I can not call it a beautiful piece of work. Anybody here in Sajha call it beautiful?
If he just wanted to make it artistic, why didn't he dare pick Fatima instead of Sita, why not Mohammad instead of Hanuman? Does it sound like an accident to you Cap?
So Cap, there is definitely a shade of intensional conflicting ideas he is expressing here.