LAHORE: An exhibition of artists Mansoor Rahi and Hajra Mansoor, featuring new artworks on cubist, contemporary and traditional subjects, kicked off at the Unicorn Art Gallery on Monday.
Beaconhouse School System Chairperson Nasreen Mehmood Kasuri inaugurated the exhibition, where more than 24 paintings of both artists were on display. Unicorn Art Gallery owner Seema Niaz told Daily Times that Hajra’s work falls into the traditional line of art and the artist had used metaphors of animals like horses into her paintings.
Moreover, she said the way Hajra portrayed women in her paintings is quite different, adding that the use of brush by Hajra in her paintings shows her maturity as an artist.
On the other hand, Mansoor had done extensive work on the cubist art movement and his artworks contained contemporary subjects, she added. Artist Mansoor Rahi said cubist art is very complex and difficult, which was invented by Picasso in the last century and influenced hundreds of artists worldwide. He said he experimented in the ‘real’ cubist art in which no light is used. Picasso shunned the idea of using lights in his painting as “it damages the real spirit and dimensions of the subject,” he added.
Answering a query, Mansoor said cubism moulds the reality and present it in a transformed way. Hajra Mansoor is a graduate of Government College of Art and Craft Lucknow and she had worked in academic realism, classicism, oriental formalism and neo romanticism. She is a recipient of ‘Chugtai Award’, sponsored by Pakistan National Council of Art in 1996. She has also received ‘Pride of Performance Award’ for her services towards the development of art in Pakistan. The painting exhibition will continue until Feb 21.
Resource: http://www.dailytimes.com.pk
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