The 50 Paintings Project

Painting # 28

  We have been free for 71 years now and that's certainly  something to celebrate.

In this Oil painting "Freedom at my door" I have added an Indian Flag as a tribute to all those to whom we owe our freedom .

...A lit candle near the door  - to show us the right way to handle the freedom we have received .

 

  But will that be enough ?... I think to myself.

Maybe one needs to strive towards other types freedom as well......like

freedom from a need of others' approval all the time

freedom from straying towards negativity at slightest provocation

freedom from faking what we are not for social acceptance

freedom from  anger, jealousy and negative thoughts...

 

 Bharat Mata by Abanindranath Tagore

 

Abanindranath Tagore was the nephew of Rabindranath Tagore who painted this visualization of the Bharat Mata in 1905

becoming the  first painter to depict Indian Nation as a Mother.  

She is shown holding in her four hands the Vedas , Rice , Mala and a white cloth.

It helped create a nationalistic feeling among the Indians during India's independence struggle and encouraged them to participate in the Swadeshi movement. 

Then I also came across this Mural painted in 1952 by Beohar Ram Manohar Sinha . 

It depicts the Quit India Movement .

 

 Though the work is not comparable to the Murals of Rennaisance like Leonardo Da Vinci's "The Last Supper"...

(But we do have some exquisite ancient  murals in the  Ajanta Caves...)

Happy Independence day and may each one of you

 

Follow Your dream, 

Be Yourself

& 

Choose Your Own Freedom ! 

Love..