Thursday, November 30, 2006

More on M.F. Hussain

Like he drew a nude Saraswathi, should he also draw a nude Mohammad initiating his young bride Ayesha in the pleasures of sex? Would we only then proclaim Hussain as a fair painter not afraid to paint everyone and anyone in the nude? If think if Hussain drew Mohammad in the act with sufficient artistry and contextual justification, he is well within his artistic licence to do so. But if it is done merely to provoke, then it is simply not done. Somehow, I do not think he did Saraswathi in the nude to provoke, though many Hindus seem to think just that.

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