WORLD, painting by Soumen Bhowmick, 2018
TITLE OF THE PAINTING – World.
SIZE – 75cm X 55 cm (Without frame).
MEDIUM – Acrylic colour and Coffee on paper.
YEAR – 2018.
PRICE – On request
“My world”, these words ring a very painful and dramatic sound of a world full of hatred and bigotry. The humanity is challenged by a very scary Fascist resurgence all over the world. The painting I did carrying this particular title resonates the present time we are living in or to be more precise, surviving. The image of a man lying on a heap of mangled-up flesh and blood and pierced by a word carrying the fascist mark is so very close to the reality of our time. This could be the scenario from any part of the world. This body without any mark of identity on it could be claimed by any religion, caste, nationality or tribe. The pain inflicted on the body is universal. The suffering needs no other language to explain the barrage of hatred and violence humanity is facing now. All the dead people who support this one single body are just pile of flesh and blood. They are our own people crushed under the very wheel of utopian notion of nationalism and development. Sacrificed at alter of fascists’ revival. We resist to be treated as mere victims who should be forgotten and thrown upon a pile of dead bodies, but have a collective voice to rise against this evil onslaught.
As an artist I fail to accept this obnoxious trumpeting of fascism and reacted in my very own way. Can’t deceive myself and play the role of a mute spectator, the creative soul denies it at all cost. It’s my visual-voice in support to humanity through this painting of the new-age crucificaxion.
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| WORLD, painting by Soumen Bhowmick, 2018 |
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