That Obscure Object of Desire - Husain Watercolor - Posters
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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M.F. Husain’s art blended bold, modified Cubism with the rhythmic spirit of Indian folk and classical traditions. His signature motifs - most famously his galloping, high-spirited horses - captured a sense of raw energy and the fluid movement of a nation in transition.
Hussain often presented the feminine form (grace & motherhood) through the lenses of Mother Teresa, Gaja Gamini and Mother India.
Maqbool reimagined India's ancient epics for the modern world, most notably in his Mahabharata and Ramayana series.
M F Husain covered history through his canvases of the British Raj and frequently depicted rural Indian life—villagers, farmers and folk dancers—to root his modernism in the soil of the common man.
