Iqbal Hussain The Radical Painter of Pakistan

Iqbal Hussain               |19" x 22"|           Code: PT: 3257            Oil on Board

Ejaz Art Gallery: Iqbal Hussain is famous for the controversial topics that he has been painting since long. He born in the city famed for the performing arts like music and dance. Iqbal Hussain has been a great exponent of figurative painting with a convinced approach that can be titled as the antithesis of feminism and its accepted etymology. Female figures in his paintings, do not present the concept of splendor and fragility that we associate with the woman. His paintings, rather display the other side of the society where the dialect of this term is confined to materialistic exploitation of the human nature and emotions. In his paintings female body represents that she does not stand for the accepted values of a society for a woman. 

With this attitude and style, Iqbal Hussain became known as a socially aware artist within his capacity as a painter. He is among those practitioners of art who used art for life. His art is alive because it is deeply rooted in the society and culture he lives in; this applies to both of his figurative and landscape or cityscape painting.

The cityscapes of Iqbal Hussain, seem the continuity of his figurative painting as they represent the disheveled complexity of the walled city architecture, in a manner that its walls, roofs and the heavy environment adds to the unheard silence of the noisy and busy life around.

These cityscapes let the viewer wander through the intertwined streets, breathe atop a rooftop, and sneak a glimpse of the Badshahi Mosque or the River Ravi. This practice also serves the artist to harmonise his profound perception to the infinity of nature. 

Iqbal emerged as a radical and notable painter of Pakistan owing to his serious concerns with the environment and ambiance where he was born and spent his early life and youth. Since he never shied away from own that locale, with all the sincerity and acknowledgement, his art is candid in its representation.

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