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Europe Gave us Shakespeare and Beethoven; America Gave us Jesse James and John Wayne

2003, oil on canvas, 115x140

Artist's biography

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The sense of fair play, justice and democracy is defined only by the powerful who are richly rewarded.

 

Nothing could be more tragic and absurd than an artist from an economically underdeveloped country contemplating and struggling over the finer points of aesthetic concepts and elevating them to a higher level of western sensibilities, just to be on par with the so called “World Class Artists”. All the time quite oblivious to the debris from a crumbling and degenerative society to which he belongs descending on his head. He thinks nothing of engaging in friendly competition with a culturally and economically powerful counterpart who frames all the rules of the game with its own advantage in mind - which the artist simply follows blindly. It is only the powerful who determine what constitutes a sense of fair play, justice and democracy, and it is they who reap rich rewards for it. But victim to the tragedy will be the person who is ignorant of this and who has lost his soul to the perverted globalised values that advocate the rapacious pursuit of economic gain backed by military might.

©2004 HBF Thailand