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Peer-e-Meikadeh opens at Art Scene

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KARACHI: Internationally known artist Dr Mohsen Keiany has a consuming passion for art and tradition. There is, as T.S. Eliot has espoused in one of his remarkable essays, a commonality between art and tradition: ‘historical sense or timelessness’. Both are a great source of creative energy for any society and Dr Keiany is familiar with […]


Ecstatic strokes

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KARACHI: Farrukh Shahab is a perturbed soul. He is an artist to his fingertips, yes, but what drives his art is agitation. This agitation is caused by both external and internal kinds of commotion. The former is to do with society and the latter with self. As a result, what you see are some fine, […]


Realism and more

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KARACHI: Distinguished Italian film-maker and one of the foremost exponents of art-house cinema Federico Fellini did not see any line between the real and the imaginary. If someone asked him about his convoluted film narratives he’d snub him, suggesting everything was realistic. The undeniable fact is that realism in art cannot be defined in abstract […]