PERSONALITIES AND THEIR CONTRIBUTION – 28102015-01
Title: Facts On Great Personalities – M F Husain
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M F Husain was one of the great Indian artists who was known for his vibrantly colored and bold narrative cubist style paintings. He was also recognized internationally.
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Great Indian Personalities, artists, paintings, M F Husain, M F Hussain, kids, kids world fun
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M F Husain , or popularly known as MF, was one of the most gifted and celebrated Indian modernist painter of the 20th century M.F Husain’s art was prolific in both technique and theme and he was widely known for his vibrant colored, bold, and narrative paintings in a Cubist style. He was immensely popular in India and was also popular internationally. …show more content…
His themes also were varied, as it was usually treated in a series. It included topics as diverse as the Ramayana to Mother Teresa, the British Raj to the Mahabharata, and motifs of Indian urban and rural society. Although his paintings depicted a violent understanding of the human condition, some of which caused some controversies.
Muqbool Fida Husain, (also spelled Hussain) was born on 17, September 1915, at a village in Pandharpur from the Maharashtra state of India. His father’s name was Fida and mother’s name was Zunaib. It is said that his mother passed away, when he was around three years old. His father however, remarried. His family moved to Indore from Pandharpur and it was there he had his primary education.
His association with painting began at an early age. He learnt calligraphy and also became an expert at the Kulfic Khat, another type of geometric art forms. He also learnt to write poetry. In 1935, at 20 years of age, he moved to Mumbai (Bombay), where he designed and started his career painting cinema hoardings, graphic billboard advertisements for Bollywood …show more content…
His series of all India exhibitions made him a well-known artist. His solo exhibition in Bombay, during the year 1952, was very successful. After that, during 1954, the Lalit Kala Akademi in New Delhi gave him the nomination as an eminent artist. In 1955, he won the national award at the Lalit Kala Akademi's first national exhibition.
A big mural of his that is around forty feet high and called the Portrait of the 20th Century, depicts all major personalities of arts, politics, dance, science, literature etc. Other significant works include Man (1951), Vishwamitra (1973), and Passage Through Human Space, and a series of 45 watercolors completed in the mid-1970s.
Besides painting, Hussain has also made a film 'Through the Eyes of a Painter' in 1967. This film went on to win the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival. Since then, he has made several short films. Husain also directed Madhuri Dixit in a film called 'Gaja Gamini' and subsequently, he made another film 'Meenaxi: A Tale of Three Cities' with Tabu, another popular cine artist.
Husain, a secular Muslim, triggered wide criticism for his often-bold treatment of religious and sensitive subject matter. One of his best-known paintings, commonly known as Mother India, or Bharatmata, depicted a bright red nude woman contorted into the shape of the Indian
Title: Facts On Great Personalities – M F Husain
Description:
M F Husain was one of the great Indian artists who was known for his vibrantly colored and bold narrative cubist style paintings. He was also recognized internationally.
Keywords:
Great Indian Personalities, artists, paintings, M F Husain, M F Hussain, kids, kids world fun
Text:
M F Husain , or popularly known as MF, was one of the most gifted and celebrated Indian modernist painter of the 20th century M.F Husain’s art was prolific in both technique and theme and he was widely known for his vibrant colored, bold, and narrative paintings in a Cubist style. He was immensely popular in India and was also popular internationally. …show more content…
His themes also were varied, as it was usually treated in a series. It included topics as diverse as the Ramayana to Mother Teresa, the British Raj to the Mahabharata, and motifs of Indian urban and rural society. Although his paintings depicted a violent understanding of the human condition, some of which caused some controversies.
Muqbool Fida Husain, (also spelled Hussain) was born on 17, September 1915, at a village in Pandharpur from the Maharashtra state of India. His father’s name was Fida and mother’s name was Zunaib. It is said that his mother passed away, when he was around three years old. His father however, remarried. His family moved to Indore from Pandharpur and it was there he had his primary education.
His association with painting began at an early age. He learnt calligraphy and also became an expert at the Kulfic Khat, another type of geometric art forms. He also learnt to write poetry. In 1935, at 20 years of age, he moved to Mumbai (Bombay), where he designed and started his career painting cinema hoardings, graphic billboard advertisements for Bollywood …show more content…
His series of all India exhibitions made him a well-known artist. His solo exhibition in Bombay, during the year 1952, was very successful. After that, during 1954, the Lalit Kala Akademi in New Delhi gave him the nomination as an eminent artist. In 1955, he won the national award at the Lalit Kala Akademi's first national exhibition.
A big mural of his that is around forty feet high and called the Portrait of the 20th Century, depicts all major personalities of arts, politics, dance, science, literature etc. Other significant works include Man (1951), Vishwamitra (1973), and Passage Through Human Space, and a series of 45 watercolors completed in the mid-1970s.
Besides painting, Hussain has also made a film 'Through the Eyes of a Painter' in 1967. This film went on to win the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival. Since then, he has made several short films. Husain also directed Madhuri Dixit in a film called 'Gaja Gamini' and subsequently, he made another film 'Meenaxi: A Tale of Three Cities' with Tabu, another popular cine artist.
Husain, a secular Muslim, triggered wide criticism for his often-bold treatment of religious and sensitive subject matter. One of his best-known paintings, commonly known as Mother India, or Bharatmata, depicted a bright red nude woman contorted into the shape of the Indian