I am with you on that only to some extent. I feel art that has no tension to it and art that does not make you think is hardly worth the canvas it is created on. Mr Hussain is not a conformist by any measure but there are plenty of others who are and whose work might be more palatable to folks like yourself. Social consiousness, in my opinion, is at the artist's discretion - great if someone choses to excercise it but not worth ostracism if he choses not to.