Famous Artist(art) In Pakistan

Pakistan country is blessed with not only great leaders but also with the great artist. Artists can strengthen and play a significant role in the country. Artists think from their bigger heart, revolutionary adventures, and visionary ideas, they do not think like policymakers and academics person. This is why artists are capable to move people to action, thus creates a significant cultural and political contributions. Artists influences society through arts by changing opinions, and translating experiences across space and time. There are some popular artists which paly a good role in our country as well as famous art in Pakistan.

Abdul Rahim Nagori:

Abdul Rahim Nagori was one of the country’s best outspoken radical political artists. His paintings were never intended to decorate the walls. Infact the beauty of his work may consist of involving textures and proficient simplification as an inherent factor. He got popularity in his uncompromising statements; rich with the meanings show his famous art in Pakistan. He was a scholastic artist, highly experienced in history and philosophy. His work in art resonated with symbols linked to  the ancient myths and legends.  He worked to articulate his protest against the injustice and cruelty in a society. His work was represented as a voice form to the authoritarian treatment, while served a pictorial and aesthetic value. Though he trained himself as a muralist, and longed to work on the huge canvas.  He quoted Anna Molka Ahmed words about him, ‘open your arms to the canvas’, but his work was directed towards raising serious socio-political issues.

Abdur Rahman Chughtai:

After the creation of Pakistan, Abdur Rahman Chughtai introduced as one of the most famous representatives of Pakistan. His paintings were gifted to visiting heads of states and famous art in Pakistan. He is recognized today as the most distinguished Pakistani artist of the 20th century. His work draws culture heritage from a shared South Asian. He was recognized Pakistani artists in India before and after the 1947 partition. His work portrayed Hindu deities and dynasties (Mughal and Rajuput princes) and famous personalities from Islam. He depicted gods and courtesans with equal affection. In the mid-1940s, he became obsessed with the idea and got inspiration behind the Taj Mahal. When he drew his subject matter, his request has proven truly  at international level. As Principal S. Kashmira Singh writes about his monographs, “For his characteristic style, perfect technique and universal appeal he has been described as the artist of all Nations.”

Ahmed Pervez:

Ahmed Parvez was one of the modernist painter of Pakistan. He was a member of The Lahore Group in Pakistan and founder of the Pakistan Group in London He was getting popularity among the few early modernists of Pakistani origin to have assemble considerable critical acclaim, with solo exhibitions at the New Vision, Lincoln, and Clement Stephens galleries in London. Parvez held a two-man exhibition at the Lincoln Gallery with American painter Alexander Calder. Ahmed Parvez had held over 30 solo exhibitions in Europe, US and Pakistan. He is undeniably our most exhibited Pakistani painter abroad.

Ijaz Anwar:

Ajaz Anwar is a distinguished painter of Pakistan. He was a gold medalist at Punjab University, and he completed his M.A. in Fine Arts from Punjab University. He had a keen interest in painting from childhood. His father was making cartoonist painting. The main theme of his paintings are the old building of Lahore.. He has tried to preserve and gone to be fed up from those buildings in his paintings which are replaced by new style buildings. He choose the buildings of old Lahore but is not historical at all. He paint common homes of common people are the main point of his attention.  He gives priorities to the natural lively colures bring the buildings to life. The main criteria of his painting are the use of kites is almost always present in his paintings which represent the famous art in Pakistan.

Anna Molka Ahmed:

Anna Molka Ahmed was the first known as art teacher in Pakistan. Because she took her students outdoors to paint of their surroundings. Her own work, thick impasto impressions were often shown to capture the very quintessence of sunshine. Her work in the field of art education is indeterminable. Her got many rewars include: The President’s Medal for Pride of Performance, Tamgha-e-Imtiaz, and the Khudeja Tul Khubra Medal.In her early age Anna Molka was determined to make her life in art.   Although her parents never supported her, Anna achieved first a scholarship to St. Martin’s School of Art, London. She was excited with the opportunity, though there were restrictions.  She was not showing any interest toward the Sculpture but handicrafts fully encouraged.

Anwer Shemza:

Anwar Shemza was one of the good artist. He got popularity and famous art in Pakistan. In 1947, Anwar Shemza adopted the name Anwar Jalal Shemza after opened the Shemza Commercial Art Studio in Lahore. He quickly became a leading figure in Pakistan’s cultural life. Shemza was the editor of Ehsas, a magazine on art and architecture. Shemza is little known to later generation and enthusiasts artist in Pakistan. After came back from Britian, he worked and painted there till his death. Based on the study of Shemza’s writing paly a significant role of his art, with reference to calligraphic abstraction.