No religion, no state, and no country can tell an artist what to paint and what not to and yet all legendary artists have been through phases when they were watched, questioned and condemned.
But the show goes on and Husain’s canvas translated places, figures, faces passionately on the canvas, sometimes an elephant, sometimes, a peacock feather, sometimes the serpent and sometimes, the Mother Goddess, because there is no stopping expressions.
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