Shine Shivan Indian, 1983
Khata, 2016 -2018
Cow dung, charcoal watercolour, black oxide, indian and chinese ink on handmade mulberry sheets pasted on tick canvas
82 1/2 x 140 x 0 in
209.55 x 355.6 x 0.02 cm
209.55 x 355.6 x 0.02 cm
Copyright The Artist
This art work symbolises the situation generated by the partition of India where our life was injected with anti secular norms. The current situation in my country is riven by...
This art work symbolises the situation generated by the partition of India where our life was injected with anti secular norms. The current situation in my country is riven by the religious factionalism. I cried a lot and am continuously thinking of it . I feel that something happened to all of us , if as humanity had died , everybody became devil.
This particular work « KHATA « , in which you will see the extraordinary famous artist Maqbool Fida Hussain on his death bed , caught by the decease of immensely embibing the nation called India.
The painting is divided into three parts , presenting three « forms » of Hussain.
At the age of 97 , Hussain left us. He was a magnificient human being , a light who gathered everything surrounding him , without any fraction.
On the base of of the painting , you will see Hussain lying on a cow - dung smeared floor, where his naked body is placed because he always wanted to feel his own motherland and as we saw him walking barefoot to feel it. His attitude was considered an obstruction by the opposite side which led him to flee to other countries at his end.
So lying on the cow- dung floor showcases his intention of dying.
In the center of the painting , you will see Hussain depicted as Moghol Kijng Jahagir’ s court painter Inayat Khan, who was addicted to opium and died in the 16Th century .
In this painting , the central figure , as Inayat Khan , is addicted by his national beauty which became the cause to deploy his intention of dying and made his life a horror in his own state , wherein he was not capable to fight or stand against the opposite , as mentioned concerning Hussain. At the top of the painting , you will see Hussain interrogating his past and assembling his thoughts , waiting to leave this earth , thinking on what he has done in entire life , as every human thinks on his death bed.
On the left , you will see the urine spurting from the genitals , imitating the explosion of atom where negativity explodes and generates blackholes. On the opposite , you will see a pyramid of light , a positive perspective which is leading life to enclose into oneness to the eternal.
The episode of the demolition of Babri Majid , Godra Hatya Kand in Gujarat, enclosure of Kashmir , and the current turmoil in Uttar - Pradesh , where mobs are trashing common people and property to implement horror in the state , the Aligarh Hindu University and Jamia Milia Islamia firing are parts of actions leading to trash the nation intellectuals , which include artists, writers and other personalities.
This painting shows , by uplifting an artist like Hussain and the word « KHATA « that a mistake showcases everything .
This particular work « KHATA « , in which you will see the extraordinary famous artist Maqbool Fida Hussain on his death bed , caught by the decease of immensely embibing the nation called India.
The painting is divided into three parts , presenting three « forms » of Hussain.
At the age of 97 , Hussain left us. He was a magnificient human being , a light who gathered everything surrounding him , without any fraction.
On the base of of the painting , you will see Hussain lying on a cow - dung smeared floor, where his naked body is placed because he always wanted to feel his own motherland and as we saw him walking barefoot to feel it. His attitude was considered an obstruction by the opposite side which led him to flee to other countries at his end.
So lying on the cow- dung floor showcases his intention of dying.
In the center of the painting , you will see Hussain depicted as Moghol Kijng Jahagir’ s court painter Inayat Khan, who was addicted to opium and died in the 16Th century .
In this painting , the central figure , as Inayat Khan , is addicted by his national beauty which became the cause to deploy his intention of dying and made his life a horror in his own state , wherein he was not capable to fight or stand against the opposite , as mentioned concerning Hussain. At the top of the painting , you will see Hussain interrogating his past and assembling his thoughts , waiting to leave this earth , thinking on what he has done in entire life , as every human thinks on his death bed.
On the left , you will see the urine spurting from the genitals , imitating the explosion of atom where negativity explodes and generates blackholes. On the opposite , you will see a pyramid of light , a positive perspective which is leading life to enclose into oneness to the eternal.
The episode of the demolition of Babri Majid , Godra Hatya Kand in Gujarat, enclosure of Kashmir , and the current turmoil in Uttar - Pradesh , where mobs are trashing common people and property to implement horror in the state , the Aligarh Hindu University and Jamia Milia Islamia firing are parts of actions leading to trash the nation intellectuals , which include artists, writers and other personalities.
This painting shows , by uplifting an artist like Hussain and the word « KHATA « that a mistake showcases everything .