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Painting in the Sikh period

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

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.

Theatricality in Painting

Both meaningful genres depict emotions related to life, most of the time, emotions of tragedy, and in between cheerful emotions of joy, for a change!

Sumera Jawad: The Excavated Linearity

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

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

Punjab: The Land of Five Rivers

Its waters have seen life being quenched since centuries. Its trees have embraced the wind that was fragrant by the immortal stories like Heer Ranjha, Sohni Mahiwal and Mirza Sahiban

COLOR CONTINUUM

Meditations to industrial revolution, the man has gone through many phases of knowing thy inner-self

Is 'E-Art' the future for Visual Expression?

Would there be any real feel or smell of the original paints mixed with oil or water, or the electronic palette with more choice of application and modification will overwhelm the centuries old paint and brush culture?

Is Art a Pseudo Statement?

There has always been a disbelief in ordinary minds about why we need such an intricate source to express even simple thoughts or emotions. Actually our emotions are symbolic representations of our nature and attitude, and these are not simple; it is a ch

Nude Art and the 'Pure Land'

In Pakistan even normal art has been taboo, then what about “nude art”? It does exist, and Pakistan has got some real adroit painters who could fashion the human anatomy with their skill and imagination

Nadeem Alam

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