M F Husain

Encyclopedia : M : MF : MFH : M F Husain

This article concerns M.F. Husain, the Indian artist. For the grandson of Prophet Muhammad, see Husayn bin Ali. For the late king of Jordan, see Hussein of Jordan.

Maqbool Fida Husain, (born September 17, 1915, Pandharpur) popularly known as M F Husain, is a well known Indian artist.

He first became known as an artist in the late 1940s. In 1952, his first solo exhibition was held at Zürich and over the next few years, his work was widely seen in Europe and USA.

In 1966, he was awarded the Padma Shree by the Government of India. In the following year, he made his first film, Through the Eyes of a Painter. It was shown at the Berlin Festival and won a Golden Bear.

Contents

1 Early years
2 Later years
3 Controversy
4 External links

Early years

Husain's mother had died when he was one and a half years old. His father remarried and moved to Indore where Husain went to school. In 1935, he moved to Bombay and got admitted to the Sir J. J. School of Art. He started off by painting cinema hoardings. He was a struggling artist until his painting was first exhibited in Bombay.

Later years

Husain went on to become the highest paid painter in India. His single canvases have fetched upto 2 million dollars at a recent christies auction. He has also worked (produced & directed) on few movies, including Gaja Gamini (with his muse Madhuri Dixit who was the subject of a series of his paintings which he signed Fida) and [[Meenaxi: A Tale of Three Cities]] (with Tabu). His autobiography is being made into a movie tentatively titled "The Making of the Painter."

Controversy

In February, 2006 Hussain was arrested and charged with hurting sentiments of people because of his nude portraits of Hindu gods and goddesses. The court ordered that it is appropriate that a painter should have freedom; however, if it is going to affect society, there have to be restrictions on him.^{[[Citing sources citation needed]]}

External links

From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.