Posted by: Mr. Lonely November 23, 2005
FWD: STOP Mr. M.F. Husain?s onslaught
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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.
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