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Gopis And Krishna - Maqbool Fida Husain - Art Prints

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M.F. Hussain (Maqbool Fida Husain) Paintings

Maqbool Fida Husain (1915 - 2011) was a modern Indian painter of international acclaim, and a founding member of The Progressive Artists Group of Bombay (PAG). M F Husain was associated with Indian modernism in the 1940s. 

 

Husain began his career by painting billboards for feature films. Hussain's —sometimes treated in series—include topics as diverse as Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Ramayana, Mahabharata, British Raj, Bollywood, horses and motifs of Indian urban and rural life.

 

M. F. Husain’s name has become almost synonymous with modern Indian art, for no single artist has popularised Indian art. M F Husain was a special invitee along with Pablo Picasso at the Sao Paulo Biennial (Brazil) in 1971.

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About Gopis And Krishna Maqbool Fida Husain
Husain illustrates a well-known episode from the rasa lila, the story based on the life of Krishna as described in Hindu text, Bhagavata Purana, where the blue-skinned god climbs a tree by a river in which a group of gopis bathe and steals their clothes. This incident, known as Gopi Vastraharan, has been illustrated in century-old manuscripts and temple sculptures found across the Indian subcontinent, as well as in later popular genres like Kalighat paintings and the oleographs of Raja Ravi Varma. Modern South Asian artists from Nandalal Bose to Francis Newton Souza have also explored this scene in their work, as an exemplar of the multifaceted relationship between the human and divine.   In Husain’s version of this tale, however, the human aspect seems to overshadow the divine. Compared to the four statuesque figures of gopis on the left, the blue figure of Krishna in the tree seems diminutive. Quarantined in a separate, smaller vignette on the right, in this painting Krishna is perhaps only a reminder of the viewer’s own voyeuristic gaze. The artist’s portrayal of the gopis, however, echoes the focus he has always placed on powerful female figures in his oeuvre. Drawing on classical Indian sculpture, Husain’s depictions of the female form were defined by his confident line and bold palette. In the figures of the gopis in the present lot, the bearing that ancient sculpture had on the artist’s early work is evident, as is the ingenious way in which he draws on the disciplines of music, dance and sculpture to bring this painting alive. Drawing from the Sanskrit philosophical notion of rasa or aesthetic rapture, Husain sought to express each of these artistic forms through the two-dimensional surface of the canvas to afford his viewers a holistic aesthetic experience.
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Gopis And Krishna - Maqbool Fida Husain by M F Husain. Our art prints are produced on acid-free 220 GSM papers using archival inks and lamination to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All prints include a sufficent white border around the image to allow for future framing, if desired. Product will be shipped in 2 days

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