CAREER IN ART: Colours speak louder than words
Quddus Mirza compels you to study his works by eavesdropping on his interior monologue, writes Peerzada Salman, Before I wax eloquent on Quddus Mirza and his creative pursuits...
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CAREER IN ART: Re-interpreting nature
Working in the genre of landscape painting, Mughees Riaz creates aesthetically beautiful works of art motivated by his relationship with his surroundings. Living in Lahore, a fast expanding city teeming with activity, he creates his own place and space. While painting works in sequence....
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CAREER IN ART: From out of pain...
Viewing the recent Canvas Gallery, Karachi exhibition ‘A step forward’ by Attiya Shaukat was a humbling experience. A stirring package of art and angst, the show was as much about the amazing versatility now found in the contemporary miniature as it was about the artists...
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ARTISTS WORK: Spiritual affinities
Recently one experienced the rare phenomenon of two art luminaries, Mussarat Mirza and Meher Afroz, showing their work together at the Chawkandi Art Gallery, Karachi, in an exhibition that displayed paintings that, though entirely different in subject and style...
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IN MEMORIAM: A fitting tribute
A much due, but fitting tribute was paid to one of the country’s most prolific female artists of yesteryear, Naseem Hafiz Qazi when an exhibition of her work titled ‘Rediscovering Naseem Hafiz Qazi’ was mounted at the Alhamra Art Galleries in Lahore.....
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IN MEMORIAM: The eternal creative quest
Islamabad-based painter Kamal Hayat’s work, exhibited at Nomad Art Gallery portrays the eternal creative quest of a man to be able to express and communicate both the perceptible and non-perceptible elements surrounding his life. Hayat has used his creative......
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ART FIEND: For the love of creation
There was joy in the atmosphere at Wajid Mirza’s recent exhibition in his Mandviwallah Chambers, Talpur Road studio, Karachi. Mind you, to get to the point from where this ecstasy was emanating, some of us had to prove our own exuberance and suppleness...
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MUSEUM: Jewel in the crown
Earlier this year, the South Asian Wing of the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), Toronto re-opened within a newly designed crystal structure by world renowned architect Daniel Liebskind, constructed at a cost of about $300 million.....
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