| Maqbul
Fida Husain (India, 1915 - )
The name Maqbul Fida Husain is synonymous with
India's modern art movement. Born in 1915 in
Pandharpur, Maharashtra, Husain's career as
a painter started in Bombay in 1937 as a banner
artist painting large film hoardings for the
popular Bombay cinema. This experience along
with his early discipline of copying the Koran
by hand in fluid calligraphy was to have a major
influence on him as a painter. As a founding
member of the avant-garde Progressive Artist
Group in Bombay in 1947, Husain like many young
of that euphoric period of India's independence,
was anxious to forge a new vocabulary in Indian
art. Husain was in fact one of the first modernist
painters who made use of Indian motifs from
Indian sources such as temple sculpture and
the Indian miniatures and created a style in
painting which was a brilliant synthesis of
tradition and modernity.
A multi-faceted artist Husain is recognised
not only as a great painter but as an artist
who is constantly innovating and experimenting
with new ideas and mediums. The most recent
being cinema using Bollywood superstar Madhuri
Dixit and Pop star Madonna as his source of
inspiration to create yet another vocabulary
in the world of art.
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