Rajkamal Kahlon
http://www.ratio3.org/kahlon_3.htm
“For this body of work, Rajkamal Kahlon has created a series of paintings using Cassell’s Illustrated History of India, published in 1875. Employing the book’s illustrations as a base, Kahlon paints on the actual book pages, creating a charged, fragmented narrative about Indian history and its colonial past. By unbinding the pages from the book, Kahlon’s gouache paintings tell a new story of brutality, power, and the possibilities of survival.”

The only thing I can really paint well is anger | Hanno Rauterberg
http://www.signandsight.com/features/92.html
“But he was never someone to paint for himself alone, for the sake of his soul. ‘I’m no loner. I want my pictures to be seen. I want them to provoke.’ He says this with such certainty that one might conclude he was a painter of solutions, that his art was one of formulas and rousing public appeals. […] ‘Avant-garde,’ he scoffs, ‘has long been a pallid cliche. The idea of the artist as outsider and genius, a fountain of creativity, with no need for teachers or rules, spurting originality till he drops, is complete nonsense!’ […] Heisig’s personal artistic biography is a story of vicissitudes: obstinate forging ahead and abrupt falling on his face. ‘I was a sort of child genius’, he explains. ‘Even before I could read and write, I could draw brilliantly. So well that my father, a painter himself, found it almost impossible to teach me anything.’ Of course it made sense, once the war was over, to apply to art school.”NOTE: This is a profile on the German painter, Bernhard Heisig, included here as FYI, answering the question: what’s up with ex-Nazi artists? Worth it for the laugh of its internal contradictions, as noted above.