Wednesday, September 9, 1998
Is today's art, art?
Painting today is explained by some artists in other ways than simply as painting. It is no longer bound by a rectangle, by a wall or by its frame and not everything is courtesy of Camlin, Winsor and Newton or the artist's supply shop. This art that is being created plays with the real and with the imaginary and uses objects and materials to construct an experience like that of a painting.
The lion still roars
You mention `socialism' and his gnarled face lights up. "It can never die," says the octogenarian poet, Kaifi Azmi, on whom the Maharashtra government has decided to confer the Dnyaneshwar award, this year. He feels, "Ultimately socialism will be the only source of succour for the masses."
Not the natural order
The really sick thing about my work is that more pink cheeked and more blonde are the sculptures of little boys and girls, the more they sell," says Judy Fox, sipping tea at the Taj Coffee Shop. And that is the reverse effect of what this New York-based sculptor desires her life-size terra-cotta sculptures to draw from viewers.
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