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In quest of enlightenment
 IROUGHLY translated into English the mystical Urdu poetry Mussarat Mirza recited to explain the symbolism found in her latest paintings. Quest for Enlightenment, exhibited at Canvas, Karachi, in March, consisted of fourteen paintings....
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Muslim at art
 Manuscript illustration has been one of the most popular forms of painting in the various Muslim centres of art. It flourished for centuries in the courts of Muslim rulers from Baghdad...
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All that materialism
 Artists communicate their visual messages through the expressive possibilities and limitations of the particular media, techniques and forms. Art materials are the main tools that transfer these ideas. Painters, sculptors, commercial artists and architects have always...
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Supply and demand
 There are only a limited number of companies dealing in the retail of art material. Most of them have been in business for the last forty or fifty years, and are...
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Different strokes and art attack
 Zenaini, Karachi, brought together two artists of different sensibilities in early May. One playing with textures and creating illusions of depth and light, the other working with figures in flat plains...
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Tragedy and terrorism
 One is likely to come across her at diplomatic receptions in Islamabad, standing next to her husband, the ambassador of Algeria in Islamabad, Issa Saferdjeli. Rekia Saferdjeli is a charming, smiling...
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Old wine in new bottles
 Kunj Art Gallery in Karachi was the venue of the sophisticated energies of three of Pakistan’s senior artists, who have served the art movement with a sincere fervour....
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Palace intrigue
 Noor Mahal Palace in Bahawalpur was built in AD 1872, but the then ruler, Nawab Mohammad Sadiq IV, did not spend a single night there because of its close proximity to...
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