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Jun 9, 2011 · Maqbool Fida Husain, better known as M. F. Husain, was an Indian artist known for executing bold, vibrantly coloured narrative paintings in a modified Cubist style. He was one of the most celebrated and internationally recognised Indian artists of the 20th century. He was one of the founding members of Bombay Progressive Artists' Group.
Jun 9, 2011 · Children: Shamshad Hussain, Raisa Husain, Mustafa Husain, Owais Husain, Shafaat Husain, Aqueela Husain. Father: Fida Husain. Mother: Zunaib Husain. Awards: Padma Bhushan (1973), Padma Vibhushan (1991) Maqbool Fida Husain was one of the most famous artists of India, known all over the world for his amazing paintings that he created during his ...
Born on November 2 9, 1913 in Pandharpur, Maharashtra in western India, Maqbool Fida Husain was the son of Fida and Zaineb Husain, a Sulemani Muslim family who traced their ancestry to Yemen. After his mother died when he was a year old, his father moved north to Indore in Madhya Pradesh, a town rich with the cultural and religious diversity of ...
Influenced by movements such as Post-Impressionism, Cubism and Expressionism, this synthesis is apparent in Husain’s paintings. In 1948, Maqbool Fida Husain visited the India Independence Exhibition with Francis Newton Souza and was struck by the classical Indian sculptures and traditional miniature paintings from the Rajput and Pahari courts.
Maqbool Fida Husain, born in 1915, was a seminal figure in Indian art and a founding member of the Bombay Progressive Artists’ Group. With a career spanning over six decades, Husain painted a diverse range of subjects, including female nudes, Mother …
Nov 2, 2023 · Maqbool Fida Husain, known as M.F. Husain (1915-2011), was one of India’s most eminent artists. Born in Pandharpur, his early years were spent in Indore. Husain began his career as a painter of cinema hoardings after attending art school in Bombay (now Mumbai).
Jun 8, 2022 · But at 64, Maqbool Fida Husain has out painted every other Indian artist in terms of quality as well as quantity. He has done more, in artistic terms, to elevate the status of Indian art to an international level than any of his contemporaries, and samples of his prodigious output adorn some of the best-known art collections in the world.
