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Mother Teresa series
1980s-
The famous face is often absent. White-and-blue drapery becomes enough to evoke care, anonymity and public sainthood.
Artist field note
M.F. Husain
A modern India in fast-moving lines.
Appears inIndia
The five in one idea
Husain made modernism feel indigenous not by rejecting tradition, but by treating mythology, cinema, politics and street life as equally available material.