Budding Artist: Ghazala Fatima
Ghazala Fatima is a Delhi born Artist currently working in Kashmir. Her paintings are generally surreal representations of forms of nature mostly trees. According to her, her paintings are usually visual depictions of her love towards nature. “ I am fascinated by nature mostly trees and I try to be as honest as possible towards […]
Symbolism
“In this art, scenes from nature, human activities, and all other real world phenomena will not be described for their own sake; here, they are perceptible surfaces created to represent their esoteric affinities with the primordial Ideals.” Jean Moreas Signature The term “symbolism” is derived from the word ‘symbol’ which derives from Latin ‘symbolum’,a symbol […]
Truck Art
Pakistan’s world famous truck art tradition dates back to the 1920s, when British Bedford trucks were imported to Pakistan and modified with large wooden crowns over the cabin. Most Pakistani trucks have an augmented rooftop to increase space for decoration and the backs of Pakistani trucks are often intricately decorated. Pakistani decorated trucks servicing Afghanistan […]
An occasion to celebrate the appetite for wisdom
It was a day of festivity and fervor among students and teachers alike as all stood to appreciate one another on the annual day of the school which was celebrated on 27th of September by Boys High School Katipora that witnessed a huge gathering of parents of wards besides famous dignitaries of various administrative departments. […]
Featured Artist: Benode Behari Mukherjee
Born with severe eye problem, being myopic on one eye and blind in the other Benode Behari Mukherjee was one of the pioneers of Indian modern art and a key figure of Contextual Modernism. He was one of the earliest artists in modern India to take up mural as a mode of artistic expression, and […]
Featured Artist: Paul Cézanne
Born on 19 January 1839 in Aix-en-Provence Paul Cézanne, was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne’s often repetitive, exploratory brushstrokes are highly characteristic and clearly recognizable. […]
Featured Artist: Michelangelo
Michelangelo, is considered as one the greatest artist who ever lived. He was born on 6 March 1475 in Caprese, known today as Caprese Michelangelo, a small town situated in Valtiberina, near Arezzo, Tuscany. He is one of the three giants of the Florentine High Renaissance along with Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael,. Although their […]
Artist in the Making: Qazi Tabish Faiz
No use of a brush, or paint, her art is not what we usually see. She creates her unique artwork with the mere usage of paper, yarn, strings, and cotton. Qazi Tabish Faiz, 27, of Habak Naseembagh area illustrates a genuine artistic skill in creating meaningful and interesting art works by using an unconventional art medium. […]
Shock Art
Art is a language sometimes political or revolutionary, a communication powerful enough to change the course of history. Art is a unique form of expression different for each artist yet capable to communicate universally. It is it’s broader spectrum that allows people to conceive and experiment new mediums within the art field. Sometimes art appears […]
Performance Art
“Our understanding of our bodies and physical surroundings is shaped by language.” Jacques Lacan
BY: Khursheed Mushtaq Ali Performance is not an isolated term of language. It involves the larger range of terms around itself. While the terms ‘performance’ and ‘performance art’ only became widely used in the 1970s, the history of performance in the visual arts is often traced back to futurist productions and dada cabarets of the 1910s (TERMS). Performance emerged […]
