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Guess
who's M.F. Husain's new muse? Mamata Banerjee!
Saturday May 14, 2011 12:51:16 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
Depicting her as "essence of Indian womanhood", Doha-based Indian
artist M.F. Husain has sketched Trinamool Congress chief and soon
to be chief minister Mamata Banerjee in a black-and-white graffiti
for a leading daily.
This etching, typical of Husain's Bharat Mata and Gajagamini style
of figurative drawing, shows Mamata Banerjee in a slimmer and more
glamorous avatar.
The artist posted the fetching graffiti portraying Banerjee --
flying a dove of peace with a Royal Bengal tiger as a mascot by
her side, in a posture akin to the Bengali goddess of strength
Durga, poised over the globe for Hindustan Times here.
Banerjee, a mass leader and a union minister, is also an
accomplished artist.
During the election campaign, she sold several of her paintings to
raise money for the party. She, unlike Husain's evolved figurative
forms and abstract and cubist horses, paints colourful
naturescapes. Banerjee is also a music aficionado.
In the 1990s, artist M.F. Husain shot to fame with his female
figurative series of artwork, "Gajagamini", inspired by Bollywood
superstar Madhuri Dixit. Later, he made an eponymous movie
starring the actress.
Husain, one of India's most prolific and respected painters left
the country in 2006 after the right-wing Hindutva groups protested
his depiction of "Bharat Mata and Indian goddesses in the nude",
saying that his portrayal had hurt their sentiments. It triggered
a legal debate following which the artist went in self-exile to
London. He worked between Dubai and London.
Last year, he accepted an offer of citizenship from Doha.
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