Contemporary painting and Indian politics

[ramana]

Dhu, I read a book review of V.S.S. Ramachandran's book "The Artful Brain", in New Scientist when it came out. He says that the Chola bronzes are the surrealistic phase of Indian art. Need to do more searching for his thesis.

Can we say that Contemporary Indian art is more kitsch style as it seems that the right brain of the movement is stunted by Marxist dogma? That would account for why it goes through motions but does not have asthetic appeal or artistic sense that normal humans possess? I mean only a demented person would paint Madhuri's picture as a scrawl and claim to be her fan! And only a socially engineered critic/media would hail him for those scrawls!

Also if one compares the paintings of MFH posted in this thread under the guise of contemporary art he really is harking back to iconoclasm of Hindu thogony and is no different thant the mauraders of yetster years like, Qasim, Ghazni and Ghori, Aurangazeb. In other words he wants to break or shatter the image of Hindu theogony while he makes chaste represetation of Muslim and Christian figures.

One can see if one juxtaposes the images he has painted in those three categories.