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Zameen
1955
Rural figures and animals are compressed into a modern pictorial field; nationhood is built from ordinary labour rather than official symbols.
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.