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Articles with tag: Painting

Painting in the Sikh period

Nadeem Alam   Mar 29, 2009   interacts: 7

It was Sikh period when the painting style started to turn from aboriginal stylized miniature style to the western realistic one and provided the foundation to the “Company Painting�

Company Style: Indian Painting under the British Rule

Nadeem Alam   Mar 20, 2009   interacts: 6

Under western influence and out of the centuries old tradition of native convention of miniature painting ‘company style of painting’ evolved with local artists working for company projects.

Is Neo-Miniature Ethnic or Foreign Import

Aisha Rajar   Feb 11, 2009   interacts: 1

History of miniature in our part of the world in its true sense of a progressive hybrid of myriad cultures from vast expanses of world, in particular, Ancient Indian, Persian, and Classical European.

Late Colin David

sehrish chauhdary   Jul 30, 2008   interacts: 4

Colin was born in Karachi in 1937; he began his art education at the University of Punjab when the fine arts departments opened its door to male students in 1956.

Sumera Jawad: The Excavated Linearity

Nadeem Alam   Nov 10, 2007   interacts: 1

Sumera, through her brush, tries to explore the true image of contemporary woman by exhuming the historical representation of the South Asian woman.

The Green Palette

Nadeem Alam   Sep 2, 2007   interacts: 2

Painting in Pakistan: the legacy of Anna Molka Ahmed, Zubeda Agha, Ustad Sharif, Allah Buksh, Chughtai, Sadequian and many others.

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