Jamil naqsh biography examples
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By Sabiha Ashraf|Art|Arts & Culture| Published 15 years ago
I am writing on Jamil Naqsh — once igen. The ’60s was when Jamil started to exhibit in sydasiatiskt land . That was also the time when I began to write on art and artists.
Jamil was the first artist I wrote about and also the one about whom I’ve written the most — my admiration for his work remains unabated with the övergång of time.
I was visiting Karachi after an absence of fyra years and Karachi’s newly laid virrvarr of underpasses and overhead bridges made it difficult for me to find Momart — a galleri I had last visited at its inauguration 11 years ago along with my husband, the late Baseer Ashraf.
A look at some of the paintings at Jamil’s most recent one-day exhibition at Momart flooded me with memories — recalling days long past, people now no more.
My first write-up on Jamil was for a brochure for his predominantly blue solo at the Arts Council in Karachi in His journalist friend, Baseer Ashraf, whom inom m
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Jamil Naqsh and The ‘Names of God’
Albemarle Gallery
24 July – Part 1 Painted Word
1 August – Part 2 Painted Word
Jamil Naqsh, now in his seventies, is probably the best known artist in his native Pakistan, and has more recently achieved a firmly founded international reputation. Born in Kairana, in Uttar Pradesh, he left for Pakistan at the time of partition, trained both as a Western-style painter and as a practitioner of traditional Mughal-style painting and calligraphy, and has now for some years lived as a recluse in London.
This summer he is the subject of two ambitious linked exhibitions, one at the Albemarle Gallery in London, which now represents him, and the other at Asia House.
Naqsh is well known for sensual figurative work, most particularly for his voluptuous female nudes, which show the influence of Picasso and of the Italian sculptor Marino Marini, but also that of Ingres, of Mughal court painting, and of the sinuous erotic sculptures that adorn pre-Mugha
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A lifes journey
The similarity is more in the spirit,says Naqsh recognised as Pakistans Modern Master whose solo exhibition titled Jamil
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Naqsh pays homage to Pablo Picasso will be held at the Cymroza Art Gallery till November 28 along with the Mumbai launch of a book of the same name compiling 80 drawings out of a corpus of ,created over innumerable years.
The exhibition will consist of 21 oil paintings and 25 pencil-on-paper drawings. Most of the paintings are figurals rendered in the Cubist style.
I admire Picasso because for him,surface and line werent important. He was only interested in colour and form, says the year-old. The entire show is my homage to Picasso not because Im influenced by him but because he gave all the 20th century artists the courage and the freedom to do whatever they wanted to do.
And that is exactly what Naqsh did. As a boy,Naqsh left his home in Kairana in UP on the banks of Yamuna and settled in Karachi