Contemporary painting and Indian politics

[ramana]

I will give quick overview but you need to dig deeper. In the beginning of the Christian West art was frowned upon. The depiction of images was not allowed. In fac tht issue of icons caused the big split between Roman and Orthodox Church. Gradually in the Middle Ages books started coming with illustrations (called illumination). Somewhere in the early part of the 11 century they started drawing images of the Madonna etc. Soon an art form developed and with reforms in Church it lead to more art. What you will come across is that modern art is a protest against the Church as the European Intellectual evolution happened.



The parallel is that MFH is attacking the Hindu domination of the Indian culture just as Picasso et al have protested the dominance of their cultures. And those who support him also share his views.

No Picasso et al did not register their protest as you are saying. Protest can come from within otherwise its an attack.


One source is Michael Hickey's
Modern Eurpoean Intellectual History

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->More on transformations in the art in the pre-war decades:  Please take a look at the paintings by

~Renoir, at http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/ren...risian.jpg (1874) and  http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/renoir/terrace.jpg (1881)

~Monet, at http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/monet/haystacks/ (1890-91)

~Van Gogh at http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/gogh/...ld-vineyard.jpg and http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/gogh/...gh.berceuse.jpg (1889)

~Gauguin at http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/gaugu...hrist-jaune.jpg (1889) and at http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/gaugu...in.nave-moe.jpg (1894)

~Picasso at http://www.artic.edu/artaccess/AA_Modern...OD_1.shtml (1904, 1910)

~Braques, Leger, and Piccasso, etc. (various Cubist paintings. 1907-1914) at  http://www.artchive.com/artchive/cubism.html

~Kandinskii at http://www.rollins.edu/Foreign_Lang/Russian/kand1.jpg (1908), http://www.rollins.edu/Foreign_Lang/Russian/kand5.jpg (1909), and  http://www.rollins.edu/Foreign_Lang/Russian/kand6.jpg (1911).
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Where is such an evolution of Indian painting? MFH suddenly emerges from late fifties with his caveman scrawls attacking Hindu domination of Indian culture. IOW he represent a fake modern and secular image of the new Indian intellectual of the post Independence age. Amartya Sen is the text icon and MFH is the artist icon of this genre.