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This melancholic work, on the pain of unfulfilled desires, features figures unanchored from a landscape of pale earth against a dark sky, alienated from each other and the ground below. Inspired by Luis Buñuel's 1977 film, That Obscure Object of Desire, Maqbool Fida Husain embarked on a series of paintings on the landscape of the human heart. About an aging man who falls for a younger woman beyond his grasp and beyond his understanding, the film mines the frustrations of love, and the obscurity of the woman who is the object of desire. In a sense, Husain uses his works as quasi-stills; fragmented metaphors for Luis Buñuel's cinematic themes of obsession, possession, and longing.
"Certain of Husain's series have been born as a response to films. Perhaps the most important of these and among the most important of any of Husain's works, is his That Obscure Object of Desire. The key is that the woman is an obscure object, one whose integrity and identity are in doubt." (D. Herwitz, Husain, Mumbai, 1988, p. 26)
Husain's works often draw on the drama of the human heart, representing psychic landscapes through the play of colour and form. As observed by Richard Bartholomew, "He uses colour emotively, in flat planes and subtle tones, amid restlessly active or strongly arresting lines. The world that he creates [...] tends to be a brooding, inward-turning world, lit by a black-haunting sun." (R. Bartholomew, Maqbool Fida Husain, New York, 1971, p. 42)
Synonymous with Indian Modernism, Husain has exhibited around the world. In 1971, cementing his reputation as an international artist, Husain was a special invitee to the Sao Paulo Biennial (Brazil) alongside Pablo Picasso. Awarded the Padma Shri (1955), Padma Bhushan (1973) and Padma Vibhushan (1989), some of India's highest civilian honors, Husain ranks among India's most famous sons. Recently the subject of the Victoria and Albert Museum's exhibition, M.F. Husain: Master of Modern Indian Painting, Maqbool Fida Husain has unequivocally become a standard-bearer of vision and artistry in India and abroad.
"Certain of Husain's series have been born as a response to films. Perhaps the most important of these and among the most important of any of Husain's works, is his That Obscure Object of Desire. The key is that the woman is an obscure object, one whose integrity and identity are in doubt." (D. Herwitz, Husain, Mumbai, 1988, p. 26)
Husain's works often draw on the drama of the human heart, representing psychic landscapes through the play of colour and form. As observed by Richard Bartholomew, "He uses colour emotively, in flat planes and subtle tones, amid restlessly active or strongly arresting lines. The world that he creates [...] tends to be a brooding, inward-turning world, lit by a black-haunting sun." (R. Bartholomew, Maqbool Fida Husain, New York, 1971, p. 42)
Synonymous with Indian Modernism, Husain has exhibited around the world. In 1971, cementing his reputation as an international artist, Husain was a special invitee to the Sao Paulo Biennial (Brazil) alongside Pablo Picasso. Awarded the Padma Shri (1955), Padma Bhushan (1973) and Padma Vibhushan (1989), some of India's highest civilian honors, Husain ranks among India's most famous sons. Recently the subject of the Victoria and Albert Museum's exhibition, M.F. Husain: Master of Modern Indian Painting, Maqbool Fida Husain has unequivocally become a standard-bearer of vision and artistry in India and abroad.