Art Galleries in Pakistan
With its culturally rich and energetic art scene, Pakistani art is now accepted and regarded as creative and highly animated all around the world, where ever art is appreciated and known with its expatriation. There are a lot of art galleries in the major cities of Pakistan displaying the works of internationally famous Pakistani artists [...]
Ajaz Anwar
Ajaz Anwar is a distinguished painter of Pakistan. He was a teacher at National College of Arts Lahore. His watercolour paintings show the grandeur of the old buildings and the cultural life in Lahore.
Life
Born in Ludhiana in 1946, his father was a cartoonist who apparently had stirred his passion from childhood and from whom he [...]
Art of Murals – Darwaish
Lahore Museum’s glorious edifice stands on Shahrah-e-Quaid-e-Azam, also known as The Mall Road, opposite to 100-year old Allama Iqbal Campus of the Punjab University. Blended with the elements of old tradition of Mughal architecture, the Museum is conspicuous among all the structures build during the British period on Shahrah-e-Quaid-e-Azam. Founded [...]
Pakistani Truck Art
Painting a truck, rickshaw or bus can have many purposes. Some do it to attract customers, while others do it to keep up with the khans
One driver from Murree, who earns up to Rs. 15, 000 a month, has spent Rs. 30, 000 to get his truck repainted. Two years ago, he and [...]
Ismail Gulgee
Ismail Gulgee (October 25, 1926 – December 14, 2007) Pride of Performance, Sitara-e-Imtiaz (twice), Hilal-e-Imtiaz, was an award-winning, globally famous Pakistani artist born in Peshawar. He was a qualified engineer in the U.S. and self-taught abstract painter and portrait painter. Before 1959, as portraitist, he painted the entire Afghan Royal Family. From about 1960 on, [...]
Art in Pakistan
The art scene in Pakistan is blooming with energy, expression and passion. Unfortunately it exists within the domain of Pakistan, the outside world knows but very little about the tremendously subliminal art (forms) that exists in Pakistan. To the outside world Pakistan remains a country immersed in conventional innuendos, fighting a [...]
