Category: Retrospective
Bashir Mirza: the inventor of BM
This retrospective text on one of post-partition Pakistan’s pioneering artists, Bashir Mirza or “BM” as he later reinvented/redesigned his n [...]
Retrospective- Amrita Sher Gil
Celebration of any female who has a progressive spirit is always due among the art circles. But things were different a century ago. Linda N [...]
The 4th Piyara: Life and works of Moyene Najmi
The intellectual tea houses of post partition time were frequented by a number of creative souls who sat together and exchanged ideas with each othe [...]
An Ambassador of Pain & Passion- Life and works of Lubna Agha
Flicking through the lives and biographies shakes up one’s own view of the world. Writers write and leave evidence of their thoughts. Painters paint a [...]
Syed Ali Imam- Iron Jawed
Every time I sneak around and snoop into the life of an artist, I draw some kind of a guilty pleasure. Looking back at artists’ lives does not only in [...]
An ‘artwork’ on Imran Mir’s Papers
Belgian surrealist René Magritte (1898 –1967) delved into the philosophy and introspection of the visual. He negotiated and challenged form [...]
HOMAGE TO JAMIL NAQSH
“For as long as we are, we’re always somewhere else. Feet are always somewhere, whether planted or running. Minds, notoriously, can be elsewhere. Mind [...]
Salahuddin Mian: The Lone Warrior
Why must one write a retrospective of a creator whose work and life merited an entire book that embodied his work/life: the ethos of his art/design; n [...]
A Beautiful Blend Of Tradition and Trend, Abur Rehman Chughtai
My first encounter with Abdur Rehman Chughtai’s art was in the early 80s'. I was in my primary level at school and had no clue about art and its whole [...]
Shahid Sajjad
Most artists in the art world are known and remembered for their body of work and oeuvre; however, it is extraordinary when artist [...]