Featured Artist
Dina Nath Walli Born in 1908 Dina Nath Wali also known as Almast Kashmiri was a renowned water color artist and poet from Kashmir. He played a great role in bringing up Modern Art movement in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Works of Dina Nath Wali are known for visual depiction of everyday scenes […]
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Vincent Van Gogh “It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done” Vincent Willem Van Gogh who highly influenced 20th century art throughout his life remained poor and unknown. A post impressionist […]
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Sadequain Calligrapher, Painter, Mural Artist Syed Sadequain Ahmed Naqvi, Tamgha-e-Imtiaz, Pride of Performance, Sitara-e-Imtiaz, also referred to as Sadequain Naqqash, was a world-renowned Pakistani artist, best known for his skills as a calligrapher and a painter. He is considered as one of the finest painters and calligraphers that Pakistan has ever produced. Sadequain was responsible for the renaissance of Islamic calligraphy in […]
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Ghulam Rasool Santosh Poet Painter Ghulam Rasool Santosh was a prominent Artist from Kashmir. Born in 1929 G R Santosh is known for his profound work on Kashmir Shavism. G R Santosh was from a Kashmiri Muslim family of modest means from Chinkral Mohalla Habbakadal neighborhood of old Srinagar. He had to give up his schooling after matriculation because of […]
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Artist in the making… Mohammad Iqbal Hailing from Chanapora, Tangmarg, a village in North Kashmirs district Baramulla, Iqbal is a 6th class student of Government Middle school Chanapora. Like most of the schools of our State this school is yet another sad story of sorts and complements the overall inadequate and an all-exclusive educational curriculum […]
FEATURED ARTIST- Waseem Mushtaq
Born in 1973 in Kupwara, Waseem Mushtaq is a well recognized artist of Kashmir. Founder of ‘Kashmir Contemporary Art’ an NGO to practice and promote Art in Kashmir which was active from 1995 to 1999. Waseem Mushtaq recalls the scenario of Art in Kashmir at the time he enrolled himself in the Institute of Music […]
