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My painting
This painting was inspired by a dusk view of the Qutub Minar.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…