RAWALPINDI, Dec 29: A relatively new, but none the less innovative branch of art caught the attention of the visitors at the fourth annual day of the Fatima Jinnah Women University (FJWU) here on Saturday night.

The varsity students put up 47 different pieces of calligraphy and paintings done in ‘Paintography’ at the exhibition. It is the newest form of art in which the skill of an artist is combined with a digital computer image to produce a painting or calligraphy in an amazingly short time.

The creator of this new form of art is Naseer Malik, a well- known photographer and a former controller productions at the Pakistan Television (PTV).

Talking to this reporter, Mr Malik, who now teaches at the FJWU, claimed that he was the first to introduce this form of art in Pakistan. He said when a computer had been invented to save time and energy of people, why not utilize its services to produce art.

He said now even those people, who had the ideas and imagination, but lacked the skills to draw could use a computer and give their ideas a concrete shape.

Afsheen Pervez, a student, said this art provided her an opportunity to create a piece of calligraphy even when she was busy.

She said in the traditional methods of art, there were many possibilities of losing great ideas as the artists had to spend most of their time in choosing suitable colours and canvas for their images, but in paintography, there was no such hassle.

Aniqa Naseer, whose painting was titled, “Dreams Lost in Water”, said through her work she had presented the desires and sufferings of an oriental woman, who always dreamt of finding a way out of the centuries-old societal evils.

The paintings of Abida Mehmood, titled, ‘December’s Last Evening’, Sana Khalid’s ‘Dream Catchers’, Saba Maqsood Khan’s ‘Full Moon in the Desert’, besides many others showed that this new form could best serve for expressing one’s inner feelings in an invigorative manner.

The paintings also presented the uncounted and ever-rising complexities faced by women in this feudal and conservative society.