M. F. Husain
Known as the Picasso of India, Maqbool Fida Husain, commonly known as M F Husain was born in 1915 in Pandharpur in Maharashtra. He studied at Indore Art College before moving to Bombay where he went through a period of painting cinema hoardings.
M F Husain and his friends from Sir J. J. School of Art wanted to go beyond the traditional method of the Bengal school of art. Therefore, they were aware that to take Indian art on a global level, they had to inspire artists to embrace modernism. Husain saw the partition of 1947 as an opportunity to start a movement. As several innocent lives were lost during the partition of India and Pakistan; he surmised that a ‘new India’ was born out of the partition.
It was then that Husain and his friends encouraged their fellow artists to take on new ideas and hence, The Progressive Artists' Group was formed in 1947.
