Description
The bull is the universal image, one can see the bull perceived visually since pre-historic period. The puranic visual literality also illustrate the glory of the bull1. We can find the imagery of bull in an European and Indian context of rock art tradition2. We know that the cave paintings were all about ‘Sympathetic magic’3. In the earlier days of ancient ritualistic sensibility the never ending deadly confrontation of ‘man and bull’ continued even today. Most of the artists perceived this sensibility vividly through the ages. The Psychological context of motivations also nervated their perceptions. We can feel this in the bulls of primitive painters to Picasso to Sujith Kumar Mandya. Hence an anxiety of influence is always there.