Here i’m gonna share the art works by Pakistani Artist with some details about them. You guyz are welcome to share here
In the summer of 1993 Saleem Lalani and Rahim Jivani launched an Art Gallery in the heart of Clifton, Karachi and named it Louvre. Both the partners had a vision to promote Pakistani artists - the ones who had already made a name for themselves among art lovers and the onces who were striving to make it to the top.
So far Louvre has sponsored numerous exhibitions of established and emerging artists at their premises and in various international cities vi. Toronto, New Delhi, Houston, Dubai, London and Birmingham, USA, to name a few to promote Pakistan’s art work.
Raja Changez Sultan, former Director General of the National Council of the Arts is an artist of universal appeal. A phenomenon witnessed in numerous exhibitions in Pakistan and abroad. His work display the epic Himalayan odyssey series. The Divided Self, and his charcoal drawings - an exciting audacious investigation into the properties of form eschewing color. The versatile artist creates images with words as well as paint, and is a published poet. He began writing poems as a teenager and linking the discipline that hold him in thrall; the first line of the first poem he wrote inspired the celebrated body paintings titled: The divided self.
“When you look in the mirror do you see your image or an image of your image, or does your image see you, or, and image of you”.
Raja Changez Sultan’s work is linked in its various moods by a sense of timelessness, a fantasy that remains to haunt the viewer’s memory.
The distinguished artist and educationist Ahmed Khan is celebrated for the luminous paintings, in which a traditional interpretation of line and form are reassessed as calligraphic design. The gestural beauty of line is translated by the artist into an exciting contemporary personal expression assimilating a unique and complex process.
Asad’s art work sometimes is calligraphy and yet it is not a lot of times. Looking at his work one gets an idea that what is written in Arabic is a script or a verse from the holy Qur’an, is nothing but ascribble in Arabic language. A collage work in center of his paintings sometimes give a soothing effect. He his undoubtedly a very unique calligraphers in the country who shows an attntive work habit. Faruki uses the geometry of circles to attempt a universal message that a written calligraphy with labor on a beautiful canvas may not be necessarily a verse from the holy book of Islam. The way to attack, control and then dissolve the canvas suggests how the language of Arabic can be validated by replacing it with simple alphabates.
Rind well known for his abstract portraits of ornate eastern women is very soft in colors and lines. He drive his inspiration from modern yet traditional women of Pakistan. The artist does not leave a single space uncovered. The youn women gazing demurely yet seductively is executed with meticulous deliberation against a background in a multitude of colors.