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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One of the Top Artist: A. Q. Arif

A.Q. Arif            |36" x 60"|        Code: PT: 3214          Oil on Canvas

Ejaz Art Gallery: A. Q. Arif is one of the most creative artist, Pakistan has ever seen. His paint and brush combinations always surprised his viewers on every exhibition.

A. Q. Arif is mostly known for his landscapes, which are very complex in their simple nature since last decade. Landscapes show simplicity and directness in appearance but their references are complicated. The field choose by Arif is practiced by many is a challenge but he took this challenge and pursued excellence in it. His canvases are a combination of the legacy in the form of palaces, gardens, forts and havelis and buildings for places left behind by the Mughals as well as the people who inhibited these places. Arif uses modern techniques to execute his paintings. Arif paints his old theme of Mughal and colonial architecture and then adds images of Mughal miniature like elephant on the prepared ground at appropriate places. In painting the architecture, he relies on his own energy and profundity. He is also called as a trendsetter for the young artists, which are emerging in the genre of landscape painting with a particular vision in mind.  

Circumstances took Arif to Lahore. A city full of Mughal Art, Lahore fascinated the jubilant artist. He was mentally relaxed in his new surroundings. His settled emotions were obvious in his new body of work at Ejaz Art Galleries, Lahore where he played with shades of blue and green overruling ochre. The viewer found a new tune on A. Q. Arif’s canvases.

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