My painting
This painting was inspired by a dusk view of the Qutub Minar.…
My painting – “Raheem and Kareem”
Rahim & Karim – Acrylic on canvas – 12″ x 18″ This is a small painting that I created in December 2007. I wanted…
Pearapong – when art deals with conflict
BC (Blog Critics) is carrying the captioned post of mine today. I am posting some excerpts here: “The artist grew up and worked in…
Buzkashi – the ancient game continues…
Further to yesterday’s post, I am reproducing this image from Saira Wasim’s website – this is a powerful painting and says it all. Titled…
Saira Wasim’s Art
ATP has published my post on Saira Wasim’s extraordinary art: Saira Wasim is a prominent Pakistani miniaturist. I found a link to her website…
Master strokes
“Perhaps Maqbool Fida Husain could take some solace in the knowledge that in his being lambasted for painting Hindu goddesses, he has joined the…
Murree Ghosts – my recent painting
I have been busy with discovering the pleasure of painting – playing with colours and mixing visions and inspirations with linseed oil. The results…
A painting on Pakistan
I have been working on this painting albeit intermittently since May 14 – when the shocking events in Pakistan stirred me to paint these…
Sufi Zikr – inspiration for a painting
This is a painting that I revisited and converted its earlier abstract form into a calligraphic experiment. Now the challenge was that in addition…
Another image of Amrita Shergil’s work
This is a rich, sensuous and haunting work capturing the mood of 1930s (perhaps) and telling the story in a Western format adapted by…
Story of a Painting – Mehrgarh, Indus and Ghalib
Mehrgarh excavations continue despite all odds; and there is much more hidden under the rugged, topograhic layers of Baluchistan. Saw this figurine (on the…
Abu Ghraib Horrors by Botero
Came across the chilling works of Colombian artist Fernando Botero last night. A friend at Berkeley University forwarded me this link that led me…
Sadequain 20 years later – Khalid Hasan
Khalid Hasan writes on the great Pakistani master, Sadequain,in the current issue of the Friday Times: “It is 20 years this year since Sadequain’s…
Iqbal Hussain – Lahore’s controversial artist
Iqbal Hussain from Lahore is one of the finest painters we have. Most of his paintings depict women from the Heera Mandi (literally the…
The art of gimmickery
Eastern art sells out to the West By Murad Khan Mumtaz From the weekly Friday Times, Pakistan 11-17, 2006 ‘Contemporary miniature’ painting seems to…