Oil on canvas
for him’
I don’t want to get into the details of why I decided to make this painting to respect privacy. However, I can talk about what this painting stands for. It’s about femininity in men and how angry it makes me to see so much hate about it in India. I couldn’t come up with words to explain my anger, so I used a language most artists do, paint.
To break down this painting, it’s a modern man (shown by the haircut) in royal jewels. Something that India’s history has always had men wear, hate towards men wearing jewellery seems so ignorant of our culture. Apart from that, the nose pin and bindis that are worn by women in India, but I wanted to add it to this to normalise men being comfortable in their femininity. The bright pink in the background, which is commonly associated with femininity, is a silent scream. Did you know pink was a masculine colour and blue was a feminine colour a few decades ago? Society changes, what we thought years ago has already changed now. Nothing is worth hurting people with words and assaults over something that does nobody harm. The subject is also looking away from the viewer in the sense that he does not care what the viewer thinks of him. The painting is meant to be hung above eye level so the viewers will have no choice but to look up at him.
I don’t want to get into the details of why I decided to make this painting to respect privacy. However, I can talk about what this painting stands for. It’s about femininity in men and how angry it makes me to see so much hate about it in India. I couldn’t come up with words to explain my anger, so I used a language most artists do, paint.
To break down this painting, it’s a modern man (shown by the haircut) in royal jewels. Something that India’s history has always had men wear, hate towards men wearing jewellery seems so ignorant of our culture. Apart from that, the nose pin and bindis that are worn by women in India, but I wanted to add it to this to normalise men being comfortable in their femininity. The bright pink in the background, which is commonly associated with femininity, is a silent scream. Did you know pink was a masculine colour and blue was a feminine colour a few decades ago? Society changes, what we thought years ago has already changed now. Nothing is worth hurting people with words and assaults over something that does nobody harm. The subject is also looking away from the viewer in the sense that he does not care what the viewer thinks of him. The painting is meant to be hung above eye level so the viewers will have no choice but to look up at him.