Mumbai: Observing that painting nude images prima facie amounted to an offence, the Bombay High Court has refused to quash a criminal complaint against an artist who painted nude and derogatory pictures of his estranged wife in his bedroom.
The couple, who got married in 1998 and jointly owned a flat, were staying in separate rooms in Mittal Ocean View on Juhu Tara Road in suburban Santacruz as they were fighting a divorce case in a family court. The wife had alleged offences against her artist husband Chintan Upadhyay under Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act for painting her in the buff.
Acting on her complaint, the Bandra Magistrate had issued process on January 8 against Upadhyay, who challenged the order in the high court. The high court did not agree with Upadhyay that the complaint disclosed no offence punishable under the provisions of Indian Penal Code or Indecent Representation of Women's Act or that the continuation of proceedings in pursuance thereof is an abuse of the process of law....
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10:10 AM, May 19, 2013
An oil painting of Anna Hazare by an inmate of India's largest prison Tihar earned him Rs 20,000 in an exhibition, said jail officials. ...
02:20 AM, Feb 23, 2013
The Karnataka High Court will on Monday hear a PIL filed on the exhibition of nude paintings in Chitrakala Parishath art gallery in Bangalore. The petitioner has said that there is no screening committee to screen paintings of artists before they are showcased at art galleries. ...
09:12 AM, Feb 11, 2013
An art exhibition at the prestigious Delhi Art Gallery has run into trouble with the Vishwa Hindu Parishad. The VHP's women wing, Durga Vahini, protested outside the gallery against the exhibition that showcases a retrospective on modern nude art on Wednesday. ...
02:38 PM, Feb 06, 2013
The war of words between the Delhi Art Gallery owner and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad seems to have worsened. Despite facing threats, the organiser of the nude art works says he won't take down the paintings. ...
07:53 AM, Feb 06, 2013
It was trouble in paradise for art lovers as art exhibitions in Bangalore and Delhi were targeted by right wing activists. Artist Anirudh Sainath's paintings at the Chitrakala Parishath were taken off after the art academy received threat calls to remove the three paintings which depicted Hindu gods and goddesses in the nude. ...
09:22 PM, Feb 05, 2013
An Art academy in Bangalore has been forced to remove three paintings from their exhibit following protests by groups saying that they are offensive. Artist Anirudh Sainath says he was forced to remove the exhibits. ...
02:13 PM, Feb 05, 2013
The annual India Art Fair is back with a bang. One of the biggest contemporary and modern art fairs in the world, it opened to public on February 1 and ends on February 3. A 103 exhibitors from 23 countries, this burst of art has something for everyone. ...
10:13 AM, Feb 02, 2013
Green activists in Mithilanchal in Bihar have come up with a bright new idea of preventing deforestation. They've started painting the Madhubani painting, featuring gods and goddesses on tree trunks. Gods and goddesses adorn the canvas on tree trunks across the highway and this is a unique initiative, started by the locals to save the trees from being felled. ...
09:53 AM, Jan 18, 2013
The oil on canvas by Glasgow-born artist Paul Emsley was done in two sittings. ...
01:24 PM, Jan 14, 2013
Ridiculing West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's claim that she would sell her paintings to collect funds for her Trinamool Congress' panchayat poll campaign, the CPI-M on Saturday demanded that she disclose the names of buyers and the prices they were paying. ...
11:39 PM, Jan 05, 2013
Mumbai: Islamic art has been Mohammed Jamshed's biggest passion for over two decades. So much so that he weaves in calligraphed holy verses from Quran into his paintings. Jamshed, in his early 60s, aims to revive the sublime but lost world of Islamic calligraphy through his paintings and pass on his art to the next generation. He has actually made whole shapes including flowers, pots, boats and buildings all by...
11:01 AM, Dec 12, 2012
Kolkata: The world's fastest painter uses colours and adhesives to fight his chronic mental illness. He makes an entire painting in just a few seconds. Parijoy Saha, a chronic schizophrenic, has set a record of finishing 51 paintings in just 35 minutes. The 38-year old paints awfully fast. He has painted a whole picture in less than one second. That makes him the world record-holder for being the fastest painter....
09:28 AM, Dec 03, 2012
Washington: Teens involved in activities such as music, drama and painting after school may become more depressed or sadder than peers who are not so inclined, says a new study. While girls were more likely to take part in the arts after school and reported somewhat greater degree of blues than boys, the study found that both boys and girls involved in arts reported more depressive symptoms than those who...
03:56 PM, Nov 26, 2012
Chennai: Paintings of around 40 tribal artists will be on display here for a week starting on Monday and the organisers hope to see sales worth around Rs 10 lakh, states Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India Ltd (TRIFED) said in a statement. TRIFED's Aadi Chitra exhibition would showcase the charm of India's age old tribal art at the Lalit Kala Akademi here. Themes will range from religious to...
11:43 AM, Oct 15, 2012
Washington: A decades-old theft report discovered by police in the US\ could be the clue that links a piece of artwork purchased for $7 to a costly Pierre-Auguste Renoir painting that was stolen from the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) in 1951. The report dated Nov 17, 1951 describes Renoir's "On the Shore of the Seine", as a "river scene in pink and blue". It confirms that the painting was...
12:01 PM, Oct 01, 2012
New Delhi: The first edition of the United Art Fair kicked off in Delhi on Thursday. The festival had everything from cars made with fibre glass to cows made of milk packets. It's not every day that one gets to walk along the Rabindranath Tagore street before turning into the Jehangir Sabavala street, but the first edition of the United Art Fair promised that and over 2,000 works of art...
12:36 PM, Sep 29, 2012
Bangkok: An episode of 'Thailand's Got Talent' has stirred a morality debate after a contestant painted a canvas using her bare breasts, drawing a rebuke from the culture minister who called it "very shocking." Culture Minister Sukumol Kunplome said on Monday that nudity on television is not considered appropriate in Thai society. She said the show's producers have been summoned to explain why the segment was broadcast and the ministry...
02:56 AM, Jun 19, 2012
BANGALORE: Have you noticed the colourful and meaningful paintings on many walls of the city, depicting the history of the state, the tradition and culture of Kannadigas or tourist havens of Karnataka? May be or may not be. But do try to spare a glance as they are now in a state of utter neglect and fading glory. Way back in 2009, the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) came up...
09:55 AM, Apr 24, 2012
New Delhi: Artist Balbir Krishan, a gay painter from Uttar Pradesh claimed that he was assaulted by unidentified men at the end of his solo exhibition at the Lalit Kala Academy in Delhi on Thursday evening. The assailants said that his art was provocative and went against the religious sentiments of people. They also threatened that just as late painter MF Husain was hounded out of the country for his...
02:34 PM, Jan 06, 2012
