Artist
Maqbool Fida Husain
Maqbool Fida Husain is a Contemporary Realism artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This Bombay painter kept a studio strewn with brushes, sandals off by the door, and a transistor radio blaring Hindi film music while he painted. He once said he saw the world “like a moving film,” and that shows in his work, faces stretched long, colors popping like a Technicolor dream. If you’ve ever walked past a Mumbai street mural that feels alive with motion, look up his Mother Teresa from 1980; it’s the same energy, the same pulse.
Works by Maqbool Fida Husain
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