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Husain: Portrait of an Artist
Ebook455 pages4 hours
By Ila Pal
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About this ebook
M.F. Husain was many things: curious boy from Pandharpur, painter of billboards, maker of toys, aesthete, the inveterate progressive artist he soon became, and later film-maker and style icon who walked about barefoot with a long brush in hand. A legend, in short. Six years after first seeing him on a rainy day outside the Jehangir Art Gallery in Mumbai, Ila Pal met the star painter for the first time in 1961. It was the beginning of a long and enriching association between an eager student of art and M.F. Husain - a journey that lasted fifty years. This book is a product of that intimate relationship. Filled with anecdotes about his charisma, his sharp wit, his sense of wonder about the world at large and his insatiable hunger for love, this warm and personalised biography traces his evolution through his many avatars. It attempts to unravel the enigma of M.F., who is consid
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M.F. Husain: Early Masterpieces 1950s-70s
Catalogue of solo exhibition by M.F. Husain, one of India's most renowned modern artists. The exhibition focusses on his early paintings in an attempt to uncover his rich and varied sources of inspiration. Yashodhara Dalmia wrote, 'It was in the early years, that Maqbool Fida Husain created the essential idiom for his art and it provided him with the navigational resources for his later journey. The layered vocabulary of his paintings, as complex as India itself, also set the tone for his preoccupation which was to tap the pulse of a nation in its making, viewing it from the street as it were. In doing so he virtually re-invented India and he continues to do this at each stage of his art.' Images of works are accompanied by individual texts. Artist biography is also included in the catalogue.
Attached is a letter from the exhibition co-ordinator 'Amrita & Mallika', about an email from an organisation called Hindu Human Rights
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Remembering M.F. Husain
Who knew that a boy from Indore, will paint the History of Indian Art like Colossus.
It was 1937 when M.F.Husain (Maqbool Fida Husain) came to Bombay for the first time. Dazzled, by the urban phenomenon. Bombay was possessed bygd modernism, institutions, museums, galleries and academics – it was there then when it all started.
Though, it wasn’t a smooth uppstart. Husain faced insurmountable economic and social challenges.
To help himself, he started as a painter of cinema hoardings. Balancing on bamboo scaffoldings, he produced these billboards without any grids and created giant human forms. This gave him and understanding the images of mass culture – inclining him towards pop art. With this, Husain was exploring the city trying to find an entry to India’s elite colonial art world.
And things went to next level in 1947 when he won an award at the prestigious annual exhibition of the Bombay Art Society. This was the sign of acceptance