Where is the art?

The Indian "Picasso", as stated in the media today has passed away today. May his soul rest in peace.

Given my artistic quotient, I can hardly spot a difference between a painting and a movie poster. I still fail to understand why people rate Monalisa's smile as wonder. They should listen to Akshay Kumar's laugh(smile) or whatever it is in the Micromax ad. Now that's what I call is a wonder. Huhuha.. How do you type that laugh here...!!!

Not swaying away from the topic, while the artistic community mourns at Hussain's death and blames the Govt. for not doing enough to bring him back from his self exile, the govt. reaction caught my attention. As the Govt. stated " We tried to bring him back but because of the NARROW MINDEDNESS of the communal forces we were not able to". Am I narrow minded? Am I a hypocrite? I enjoyed Sheila Ki Jawani and watched while Munni was getting Badnaam and a lot more which needs to be censored here. Then why does it bother me to see the Gods & Goddesses & my own motherland being portrayed nude. I am not much of a religious person either. I absolutely have no answer to this except for saying that I support Mr. Hussain's exile. I don't think I mind being called narrow minded.

Moving our focus to the broad minded Congress. How broad minded would the Congress government be if Mr. Hussain painted Mrs. Sonia Gandhi or Mrs. Indira Gandhi in bad taste. I want to see if they would still call it art and applaud. Isn't it the Govt. which went berserk demanding an apology from an Australian RJ for calling Sheila Dixit, Di** Sh**. Where did they shove their broad mind then? I might be misinformed, but did Mr. Hussain ever apologise for his pathetic endeavor to paint everything nude which would hurt 80% of the population?

The argument "Why don't you appreciate the good paintings he made". Bull Shit. what comes to one's mind when he thinks of
1. Hansie Cronje : Bloody match fixer
2. Ramlinga Raju : Cheat
3. Nithyananda : Desperate
4. N. D Tiwari : Sexy
Are we able to see the good deeds of these people? I don't think so. And these people have not hurt the sentiments of people in the way Mr. Hussain have.

This post may be in a bad taste and at a bad time. It might have even hurt the sentiments of the artistic few, but hey grow up, don't be so narrow minded, blogging is an art.