Which statement about The Progressives group is correct?

A) The group formed in Calcutta.
B) Francis Newton Souza was an outspoken leader.
C) The formation occurred in 1943.
D) M.F. Husain, K.H. Ara, etc were the prominent artists of the group.

B and D

Answer- B and D
B) Francis Newton Souza was an outspoken leader.
D) M.F. Husain, K.H. Ara, etc were the prominent artists of the group.

The desire for freedom — political, as well as, artistic — soon spread widely among young artists, who witnessed Independence from the British Raj. In Bombay, another set of artists formed a group, called The Progressives in 1946. Francis Newton Souza was the outspoken leader of the group, which included M.F. Husain, K. H. Ara, S.A. Bakre, H.A. Gade and S.H. Raza. Souza wanted to question the conventions that had prevailed in art schools. For him, modern art stood for a new freedom that could challenge the traditional sense of beauty and morality. However, his experimental works were focused mainly on women, whom he painted as nudes, exaggerating their proportions and breaking the standard notions of beauty.