Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Gallery.
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A pioneer of Pakistaniart
 Approaching eighty and still productive, age does not seem to have diminished Ajmal Husain’s ardour for painting and he remains one of Pakistan’s oldest practising artists....
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Enjoying the colours of nature
 One’s first impression of Salman Farooqi’s work is that it is connected to nature. Leaning towards abstraction, a subtle play of colour creates an all over pattern that suggests references to landscape....
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Festival of colours and riot
 When in the middle of the last century Hafeez Jalandhari wrote and Malika Pukhraj sang “Lo phir Basant aai”, it was the pristine and primeval aspects of the changing season in Punjab that the poet celebrated....
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Sandhu’s emotional testimonials
 The autumn leaves on the trees in the landscapes burn with a reddish fire. The buildings of Lahore flash crimson too, as do the crowds of protesters who congregate and shout themselves hoarse....
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The silent soul
 In an exhibition titled ‘Silent Souls’ at the V.M. Gallery, Karachi, Shakira Masood muses on the world around her. “Natural disasters, manmade disasters...we helplessly stand and witness all of this....
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Ornamental embellishments
 The genre of culture paintings, a widely practiced aspect of realism, has yet to locate itself specifically in our art hierarchy. Enjoying a long history of varied form and content it...
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No representation of Islamic art
 We, in Pakistan, both the government and the people, think that we are the only country in the world that is truly sincere in its adherence to Islam....
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