Ather Jamal the Portraiture of Classic Tradition

Ather Jamal    |40" x 26"|       Water Color on Paper

Ejaz Art Gallery: Every artist has his favorite medium. I feel that I can express myself with ease through water colors even though it’s a difficult medium in more ways than one”, says Ather Jamal, in an interview.

He is an artist in the classic tradition. He is an exponent of spontaneous, on-spot painting and for years he has made a practice of moving around the country, sketching and painting landscape views and scenes from life.

He is renowned for the Thar series, in which he has documented the costumes, homes and customs of the ancient Thar region of Pakistan that maintains the traditions of an ancient culture. In his work, the geometrically inclined vertical and horizontal planes of the surface of his paintings are juxtaposed with the soft-edged form and drapery of the subject. Jamal makes frequent trips to the area where people go about their work while he quietly sketches and paints. Focusing on the figure as the subject of the painting, his figure studies are dramatic renderings of shades. . His work has been exhibited in Europe, the UK and Asian countries as well as cities of Pakistan

Back in Late 80's he was a teacher of Design Department. Many students were always around to get information and tips to improve their Fine Art.  Sir Ather Jamal, inspiration and ideal who guided every student of his through their course of studies and helped thousands of students to enhance their art to maximum. Ather Jamal never say no to his students, his artistic hands were dancing on paper with various medias. He can create any colorful image in few minutes.

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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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Top Painter of Pakistan; Allah Bux

Allah Bux                |24" x 36"|                Code: PT: 3555                       Oil on Canvas

Ejaz Art Gallery: Ustad Allah Bux was a Pakistani veteran painter and etcher known for painting folk tales, village life, landscapes and portraits. He was born in Wazirabad in 1892. He worked as an apprentice to Ustad Abdullah at the tender age of five years. Ustad Abdullah was a true Mughal miniature artist of Lahore. In 1914 he went to Bombay, where he was employed as a photographer, retouch artist and portrait and landscape painter at the Bombay Art Studio. After returning to Lahore in 1919, he became a fine art painter who supported himself as a commercial artist. Most of his work was in oils and on larger scales but he also experimented with other mediums. He was good in water-colours, pen & ink, tempera colours, pencil and paints. His imagination is so strong that he has covers even the minutest of details in his paintings. 

He also learnt painting art from Master Meeran Bakhsh Naqash, a known teacher and painter and was also the Vice Principal of the Mayo School of Arts. Ustad Allah Bux worked for various private agencies as a commercial artist and never stayed at one job for long. 

He was awarded 1st prize in painting in a competition held in Bombay. Later on he was awarded countless prizes. He was also awarded Presidents medal for Pride of Performance. In 1979, through RCD's program, the government of Iran reproduced one of his paintings on a postage stamp.

He died on October 18, 1978, leaving behind a long list of his admirers and followers. Ustad Allah Bux was a real asset for this nation. His traditions will be preserved for generations to come and his contribution will always be remembered.

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S. A. Noory (Artist)

S. A. Noory        | 10" x 7" |   Water Color on Paper

Ejaz Art Gallery: Every artist has it's own style of painting and demonstrating his/her work. One of which is "Water Color on Paper". Some of the very famous artists which work with Ejaz Art Gallery,"Mr. S. A. Noory" is among them.

S. A. Noory is a self-taught artist. He went to different art schools for refining his artistic work and to gain extra experience but the style he paint, is entirely his own style which discounts the formal and traditional study of painting and several artist appreciate his work. Nevertheless, there seem to be unconscious influences that give any artist’s work a signature look, as unique and automatic as handwriting.

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