As a painting student i was often repeatedly asked to make the portrait of a woman beautiful and smooth and that it is a sort of dis-figuration if we distort it. In reference to that, wrote this paragraph.(one thought lead to another.)
Why is it continuously asked of me to make the woman so beautiful and soft when she bears all the pain and encrusts it, further accepts it and then when she has the weather beaten marks on her face of the passing years discarded and regarded to as ugly. Does this not question the concept of beauty?? Or is it that the term beauty is too fickle or limited.
Why is it that the woman who has been raped or physically abused is the one looked down upon by the so called "Great Indian Society",while the actual people who should be subjugated are the ones free and flawless.
Why ??? All the blame to the woman???
-Akanksha Khanna
Why is it continuously asked of me to make the woman so beautiful and soft when she bears all the pain and encrusts it, further accepts it and then when she has the weather beaten marks on her face of the passing years discarded and regarded to as ugly. Does this not question the concept of beauty?? Or is it that the term beauty is too fickle or limited.
Why is it that the woman who has been raped or physically abused is the one looked down upon by the so called "Great Indian Society",while the actual people who should be subjugated are the ones free and flawless.
Why ??? All the blame to the woman???
-Akanksha Khanna
Nice one ... It is a nice topic to think about and even I have had thoughts to write about this - that why we are suppose to portray a woman - BEAUTIFUL or delicate :-/ Women who work in the fields, have lacked the delicacy of their skin and appearance due to manual hard work... Are they not woman ... ? I think they are the most beautiful and strong subject ...that I would want to capture in my painting !
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