PAINTER EXCLUDED FROM INDIA ART SUMMIT

For the second year in a row, one of India’s biggest art events, the India Art Summit, is being overshadowed by controversy swirled around the organizers’ prohibition of the display of works by M.F. Husain (b. 1915), following threats from right-wing Hindu groups. http://ibnlive.in.com/news/no-husain-work-likely-in-this-india-art-...

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Permalink Reply by Sudip Ghosh on August 4, 2009 at 9:12pm

This is outrageously offensive. I wonder how this can be allowed in any creative field. And the incident is of concern all the more since this is India Art Summit-- an event that is touted as the biggest art event in a country that takes pride in declaring that it guarantees Right to Expression as a democratic right.

How can Hindu right wing groups dictate artists, or for that matter anybody in a democratic country? How can communal concerns overshadow creativity? And if, unfortunately, that happens, then we may as well declare that we have officially harked back to the middle ages and rest at that.

Has creativity been ever defined by sectarian issues? Were artists ever controlled by religio-political shackles?

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Permalink Reply by Shan Kelly on August 25, 2009 at 7:16pm

As usual being excluded will only increase interest in MF Husain by the liberal intelligentsia. Being rejected or banned is now r percieved as a good marketing ploy by lots of galleries.

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Permalink Reply by Shan Kelly on August 25, 2009 at 7:17pm

Whatever you can't see will make you want to see it more.

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Permalink Reply by Prince Freakasso on December 9, 2009 at 4:04pm

It has always been the topic of intrigue, to wonder as to why an artists level of creative bankruptcy;stoops to the obnoxious levels of trampling upon fragile human sentiments.Art is meant to endear to the thought processes and expectations of an art hungry audience.Never to inculcate apprehensions and fear.A great artist being reduced to a maggot,is heartbreaking.Sometimes we discover an artist to be not so great after all.And therein lies their untimely demise.....PRINCEFREAKASSO

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Permalink Reply by Prince Freakasso on December 9, 2009 at 4:19pm

Artists for generations have raised a hue and cry about,defending the delicate domains of the freedom of expression.Unfortunately the fine line between freedom and creative deviancy,is something an artist fails to understand,most of the time.Art is an intellectual pursuit and very few artists anywhere in the world can truly boast of being a part of it.So no surprises.....PRINCEFREAKASSO