Bhupen Khakhar--You Can't Please All, 1981
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"This is a courageous painting. On the right, Khakhar leans over a balcony, naked, looking at the village scene before him. In the centre, an elderly man rides a donkey with a young man by his side. The same pair appear at the bottom of the picture, this time digging the donkey’s grave. This is a recreation of Aesop’s fable about a man and his son taking their donkey to market. As they pass people on the road, some laugh at them for not riding the donkey, others chastise them when they do. Eventually the donkey dies, and the father says to his son, “Please all, and you will please none.” Khakar used the fable as a metaphor for his coming out – the first artist to do so publicly in India. He realised he’d never please everyone, so he may as well please himself."
https://www.1843magazine.com/culture/the-daily/bhupen-khakhar-packs-a-punch
https://www.1843magazine.com/culture/the-daily/bhupen-khakhar-packs-a-punch
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