Riding the Eastern Wind: Scroll Serigraphs by M. F. Husain
For MF Hussain Horse are an infinite visual resource, combining form, feeling and significance, always inviting, always exhilarating embodiment of cosmic energy. Growing up, he was captivated by the stories of Duldul, the mule owned by Prophet Muhammad and was later inspired by the equestrian sculpture of Maharaja Sayajirao in front of Baroda’s Public Garden. Around 1950 MF Husain Painting Duldul, his first major work incorporating the horse. But the simple, stylized form of Duldul could not carry the full expressive force so vividly experienced in the swirl of devotion and prayer that took place around the actual image as it moved in procession through the city. Husain continued to reach for an idiom that would endow his horses with the vigour and character they held in his imagination. As iconic as Husain’s horses are the scrolls by Husain. He studied horses and their form during his first visit abroad which was to China in 1952. He was invited to be a delegate to the ...