**Ismail Gulgee - **
Born in Pakistan
Qualified engineer in USA and self-taught abstract painter
Before 1959, he has painted the entire Afghan Royal Family.
His paintings are bright and full of color, but the paint is put on with greater sensitivity and paintings vibrate with intense feeling. Areas sing with luminous thin color, thick blobs of paint pulsate with fiber-glass tears, the brush swirls strong and free. The total effect is very gray, yet considered and well thought out. They work enormously well, because it is all orchestrated with great care and concentration.
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/images/h2/h2_wepk_1.jpg
http://www.newagebd.com/2006/mar/17/mar17/also04-b.jpg
http://www.heritageonline.com.pk/images/gulgee.jpg
http://www.unicorngallery.net/Images/Masters-for-sale/Gulgee%206-4%20ft%201989.jpg
I never got a chance to actually look at his work much during the living life of this legendary exceptional and unconventional artist ..
Now looking at these paintings by him.. i can totally relate to his work,
what i admire most about is .. it is stunning yet looks effort less..
