Karachi: There’s art exhibitions galore in town, all the trendy art galleries capitalise on the public penchant for the weird and the comic. All sorts of modern, avant-garde art forms are there, art forms where the viewer lets his imagination run away with him. There are works which call for mental acrobatics with superlative alacrity […]
KARACHI: Abid Khan’s fascination with nature and the beauty it withholds is apparent in his latest series of works. The English Literature academic claims he uses paintings as an effective medium to communicate his vision and ideas to the audience. His work, one finds, is mostly inspired by landscapes one comes across in English prose […]
By: Ahtesham Azhar KARACHI: Full Circle Gallery has organised a group exhibition titled ‘Trapped’, by Amir Raza and Hidayatullah Mirani featuring two different themes. The theme opted by Raza is about the prevalent situation of our society, which is restricted to development or progress, while Mirani painted about birds and other wildlife, being tortured and […]
By Hifza Jillani KARACHI: For some, a parrot might just be a bird but in the recent works of artist Hidayatullah Mirani, it represents the apathy of men towards animals and for painter Amir Raza, it is symbolic of how societies have become a slave to their own pre-conceived notions. The two undergraduates of miniature […]
Anil Datta Karachi: A collage of buildings with a surreal touch, including a church, a mosque, and a Mandir—-This is Tabinda Chinoy’s vision of a society embedded in tolerance and harmony. Tabinda just doesn’t paint at random. Her paintings are a projection of her sublime dreams. She longs for a society where all religions happily […]
ISLAMABAD: On the surface, the Pakistan-Swedish artist Ubaid Syed and the Swedish artist Ivan Joern never met. But displayed together, their paintings have a strange harmony that intrigues the viewer, as observed at the latest exhibition at Nomad Gallery on Wednesday. Syed paints nature albeit with a bizarre and melancholic twist. Dark Hues of blue, […]
Art beautifies the society and in order to keep it lively fine arts should be valued. Lieutenant General Muhammad Ahsan Mahmood, HI(M), Chairman POF Board, said this while addressing the inauguration ceremony of a paintings exhibition titled “Pakistan – Past and Present” by an eminent painter of the country Aftab Zafar organised under the auspices […]
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