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Pakistani art. Pakistani art (Urdu: پاکستانی فن) has a long tradition and history. It consists of a variety of art forms, including painting, sculpture, calligraphy, pottery, and textile arts such as woven silk. It shares features with Indian subcontinental art.
The National Museum of Pakistan was established in Frere Hall in 1951, replacing the defunct Victoria Museum. [2] Frere Hall itself was built in 1865 as a tribute to Sir Bartle Frere, a commissioner of Sind during the 19th century. Once the museum was inaugurated the government of Pakistan deemed it wise to constitute an Advisory Council in ...
chughtaimuseum.com. Abdur Rahman Chughtai (21 September 1894 – 17 January 1975) was a painter, artist, and intellectual from Pakistan, who created his own unique, distinctive painting style influenced by Mughal art, miniature painting, Art Nouveau and Islamic art traditions. He is considered to be 'the first significant modern Muslim artist ...
Website. ismail-gulgee.com. Ismail Gulgee (Urdu: امین اسماعیل گل جی; 25 October 1926 – 16 December 2007), [1] also known simply as Gulgee, was a Pakistani painter. [2] Born in Peshawar, he received his early education at Lawrence College before attending Aligarh University, Columbia University, and Harvard University for higher ...
In 2023, total attendance in the most-visited art museums returned largely to the level of 2019, for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began. [ 1 ] A primary source for 2023 figures is the Art Newspaper , [1] , whose most recent annual survey was published in March 2024.
Jamal Shah (born 1956), actor, director, painter, and social worker. Anwar Shemza (1928–1985), artist, writer, printmaker. Shazia Sikander (born 1969), miniature artist. Tassaduq Sohail (1930–2017), painter and short story writer [1] Fakeero Solanki, sculptor. Raja Changez Sultan (born 1949), painter, poet.
Ustad Allah Bakhsh (c. 1895 – 18 October 1978; sometimes spelled Allah Bux or Allah Bukhsh) was a Pakistani painter and calligrapher who was actively involved in aesthetics and classical landscape paintings throughout his life. He produced his work in British India before partition and in Pakistan after split of Indian subcontinent.
Taxila Museum has one of the most significant and comprehensive collections of stone Buddhist sculpture from the first to the seventh centuries in Pakistan (known as Gandharan art. The core of the collection comes from excavated sites in the Taxila Valley, particularly the excavations of Sir John Marshall.