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Brushstrokes coloured by outrage
`War', an oil painting by B.D. Jagadish.
YOU HAVE reasons to get agitated. But do you agitate? The gory images on the television screen and newspaper reports on the ongoing war deeply distress many. Naturally, the more sensitive of the lot, the artists, find it too difficult to digest the large-scale violation of humanity.
B.D. Jagadish, who works in the Government Ayurveda College, Bangalore, is an artist who has sought to express his anguish over the war with his brush. A keen view of his "War,'' an oil painting, makes one wonder whether humanity is heading in the right direction. Of course, that is what the artist is attempting to communicate. "The need of the hour is provoking a debate on what is going on,'' he says. The media, literature, and art forms should make people debate on the future of humanity, which is facing the threat of wars and the use of the most dangerous weapons, culminating in mass destruction. The artist, however, refuses to take any side. "Both Iraq and the US are waging a war with selfish motives,'' he observes. This is not just a war between two countries; all nations will undoubtedly, experience its social, political, and financial impact.
His concern is that although the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were yet to fully recover from the use of atomic bombs during the Second World War, another war is taking place.
Under these circumstances, there is a need to look into the factors such as the possibility of a biological warfare.
His painting is an attempt at educating people in this direction, he says.
B.D. Jagadish
Jagadish, a prolific artist for the past 20 years, was born in Bananki of Tirthahalli taluk of Shimoga District.
He grew up amid greenery, mountains, and, naturally with an innate love for nature and humanity.
Over the years, he has mastered the art of complex amalgamation of colours on the canvas.
He represented the country in the World Convention in the U.S.. He has held exhibitions in different parts of the State.
By Govind D. Belgaumkar
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