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Born on this day: M. F. Husain, the Bombay Progressive who reinvented the pictorial plane

17 th Sep’ 2023 ON THIS DAY “Art is always ahead of time. Tomorrow, they will understand it” —M. F. Husain Early Moorings M. F. Husain, popularly hailed as the ‘Picasso of India’, was born on this day, 17th September, in 1915. Maqbool Fida Husain was born in Pandharpur, in Maharashtra today and then in […]

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Jogen Chowdhury: Memoirs of an Indian Dream and Alchemy of Expression

Jogen Chowdhury is an eminent Indian artist considered one of the most important and seminal figures in the history of postcolonial Indian Art. Jogen knows his painting bonded to Partition, the landscape, folk tales, and figurative and political injustice-motivated compositions. He was born and brought up in an ambience of Partition, exist it his post-Partition

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