Limitation on Freedom of Artists
Last Updated: Aug 2, 2013
There should be freedom on the imagination of artists but limitation on their execution. Artists should not make art out of bothering people, hurting their sentiments, stirring up nuisance. I believe freedom of expression is only valid when you are not hurting anybody feelings.
Freedom of artists creating Religion controversies like Danish Cartoon Controversy, Author Salman Rushdie’s controversy after the publication of his novel The Satanic Verses and Painter MF Hussain controversy, all are damaging the human emotions, culture and putting bad examples of artistic freedom. It is insanity, not art to paint toilet seats with pictures of deity, whiskey bottles in the hands of Goddess Durga, nude pictures of deities, deities on shoes, etc. Such acts should be looked upon as a cognizable offence punishable by law. Such artists are only seeking cheap publicity and morally corrupted.
”Self censorship” should be on artists. Self censorship is a control of what you say or do in order to avoid annoying or offending others, a sudden increase in the number of legal cases being filed against artists, actors and writers for “offending” people has caused great concern in India’s art community.
The real problem is that the Indian Government hasn’t done its job in raising the standard of living and education for all Indians. While the middle-class artists long for artistic freedoms and Western-styled excess, the majority is mired in poverty and ignorance and “freedom” seems to bring out only their worst characteristics.
Raising the standard of living and making the entire population literate and aware of what a democracy is the only true solution. When artistic freedom is not balanced with an awareness of artistic responsibility which entails social, economic, cultural, and religious contextual sensitivity, one paves the way for licentiousness and artistic perversion masquerading as artistic freedom.There should be limitation on freedom of artists.
Art has no limitation, one can create it according to his expressing power & skill show capability. One should respect artist because they create everything by their feeling & express their emotions in it. They have their won talent to express everything in a innovative manner.
But that talent can hurt religion value. Is this innovation in an art?
When a person want fame they do anything, this post is based on fame seeker who can do anything for fame even that they dont know what they are doing and it also for a person who is really famous but they want to come in news headlines so thats why they do this type of stunts for more publicity . Artists is like big oceans because they are more creative then any one but they dont hurt any body feeling, emotions. They are the persons who develop feeling behind any scene but dont hurt them and by this type of thinks were do so i respect this post that there is an limitation for an artist.
yas artist who can innovate an art or entertainer or express their feeling through art.
Artistic freedom is a critical issue.Kamal Hasan recently had such a tough time when he was not allowed to release his recent film vishwaroop,in the way he wanted it to be.High court banned it for 4 successive times.
Kamal Hasan went in the media claiming his right to artistic freedom is being violated.What artistic freedom ,in true sense means???Artists here are made to believe that they can do anything in name to artistic freedom.But even the artists should try to use this freedom in a sensible way.This freedom should not be used to malign or defame anyone,hurt any body sentiments etc.Here the state body comes into action.The whole idea of censorship is to regulate the use of artistic freedom.Artists are very much loved and equally respected in the society.It therefore becomes their duty to carry themselves in a respectable manner.
art is the reflection of the social environmental.. it helps us to understand the present scenarios… even from those who feel art has become too shocking, there is a reluctance to see artistic value defined by the police or state bodies……………….artists should exercise better moral judgement in who and why they offend….artworks contextualize and allow us to reflect on ideas and actions which would be shocking or illegal in real life……so freedom is the necessity…but the dimension should be limited….
I don’t completely agree with the fact that there should be any limitations on freedom of artists. Having freedom of speech is very important; it is also our fundamental right. I agree that some people proclaiming thamselves to be ‘artists’ might as well misuse this freedom for cheap popularity, but putting a ban or limitation on a person’s imagination is murdering their their creativity. Just because some people are misusing a particular right doesn’t mean we would let the others suffer for it. As the saying goes ‘Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes whereas Art is knowing which ones to keep.’ So, very clearly a person’s discretion on what he publicizes as art is necessary. People like Salman Rushdie or M.F.Hussain as mentioned do not need any cheap popularity as such I suppose. May be some of their work have hurt the sentiments of certain people I agree, but when they realized this they promptly asked for forgiveness. So I don’t see any point in blaming them for that and making it as a platform to dictate limitation on creativity of artists. There always will be 2 sides to a coin and we have to bear with it. So, as I already said, the discretion of a person matters, for that I do not support the idea of putting any limitation or on freedom of artists and murdering innovation at its very root.
Art is a religion & there should not be any limitation on professing it as it binds all the human beings.
we are living in society with some duty. We are not free to hurt anyone’s emotion.
i think every one is free to elaborate its its area of work according to their interest as possible as can…