THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It was a sweet ‘revenge’ for artist Tom Vattakuzhy when finance minister T M Thomas Isaac released the cover of his budget speech on Friday.
The painting ‘Death of Gandhi’, which captures the poignant final moments of Mahatma Gandhi, has been duly credited to Vattakuzhy in the book.
Tom Vattakuzhy
The painting, in the medium Gouache, was drawn in July last year and soon became an instant hit on Facebook where he first shared it. It became a controversy on Martyrs’ Day on January 30 when prominent politicians such as Rahul Gandhi and Kanhaiya Kumar shared the picture without giving any credits to the creator.
Vattakuzhy told TOI recently that it was the attempts to tamper with the history that made him draw it under the genre ‘History Painting’.
Sharing the post of Rahul Gandhi, Vattakuzhy had mentioned, “when our horizons of freedom are at stake, when our historical past is at stake, I wanted the this painting as an indelible poignant memoir to be etched into the soul of every Indian and keep reminding us always of how our father of the nation died or rather assassinated. But it saddens me as a painter, to see the work being circulated like a fatherless child without acknowledging its authorship.”
Another painting – which became the cover of the ‘gender budget’ tabled in assembly – by a young artist too became a topic of discussion. The painting 'ente ammayum ayalpakathe ammamarum' (My mother and mothers' in neighbourhood), which had won Shanker's award, was drawn by 14-year-old Thrissur student Anujath Sindhu Vinaylal.
The painting ‘Death of Gandhi’, which captures the poignant final moments of Mahatma Gandhi, has been duly credited to Vattakuzhy in the book.
The painting, in the medium Gouache, was drawn in July last year and soon became an instant hit on Facebook where he first shared it. It became a controversy on Martyrs’ Day on January 30 when prominent politicians such as Rahul Gandhi and Kanhaiya Kumar shared the picture without giving any credits to the creator.
Vattakuzhy told TOI recently that it was the attempts to tamper with the history that made him draw it under the genre ‘History Painting’.
Sharing the post of Rahul Gandhi, Vattakuzhy had mentioned, “when our horizons of freedom are at stake, when our historical past is at stake, I wanted the this painting as an indelible poignant memoir to be etched into the soul of every Indian and keep reminding us always of how our father of the nation died or rather assassinated. But it saddens me as a painter, to see the work being circulated like a fatherless child without acknowledging its authorship.”
Another painting – which became the cover of the ‘gender budget’ tabled in assembly – by a young artist too became a topic of discussion. The painting 'ente ammayum ayalpakathe ammamarum' (My mother and mothers' in neighbourhood), which had won Shanker's award, was drawn by 14-year-old Thrissur student Anujath Sindhu Vinaylal.
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