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M F Husains death stokes anger and regret back home NEW DELHI: M F Husains death in a London hospital at 2.30 in the morning on Thursday brings the 95-year-old painter, political philosopher and passionate admirer of beauteous Bollywood actresses startlingly to life. The passing of Indias most famous contemporary artist in self-imposed exile under a foreign sky resurrects the fractious debate over freedom of expression and the states failure to protect it. Husain, an Expressionist who gloried in the elegant rendering of his trademark subjects – horse and woman – died a Qatari, after 94 years as an Indian national. Almost till the end, he insisted he wanted to return to India. But a non-bailable warrant for his arrest forced the painter who famously favoured bare feet and Bugattis to leave India in 2006 with the soberly hurt explanation that matters are so legally complicated I have been advised not to return home. This caused him to be dubbed Indias Picasso though he was originally influenced by the German Emil Nolde and Austrian Oskar Kokoschka, both Expressionists rather than the commie Pablo Picasso, who founded Cubism and exiled himself from fascist dictator General Francos Spain Back |
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