fbpx
  • Home
    • Giveaways
    • Press
  • STYLE
    • Siddy Styles
    • Trends
    • Style Star
    • Fashion Features
    • The Edit
  • BEAUTY
    • Beauty Minute
    • Wellness
    • Hair
    • Makeup
    • Skin
  • LIFESTYLE
    • Interior Design
    • Wanderlust
    • Food Safari
    • Entertainment
    • Events
    • Five Favourites
  • CULTURE
    • Cinema
    • Design
    • Art & Artists
    • Playlist
  • STORIES
    • Musings
    • Heart To Heart
    • Careers
    • Bucket List
  • SIDDY TV
    • Youtube Channel
No Result
View All Result
Fashion & Lifestyle Blog - Pakistani Fashion Blog | SiddySays
  • Home
    • Giveaways
    • Press
  • STYLE
    • Siddy Styles
    • Trends
    • Style Star
    • Fashion Features
    • The Edit
  • BEAUTY
    • Beauty Minute
    • Wellness
    • Hair
    • Makeup
    • Skin
  • LIFESTYLE
    • Interior Design
    • Wanderlust
    • Food Safari
    • Entertainment
    • Events
    • Five Favourites
  • CULTURE
    • Cinema
    • Design
    • Art & Artists
    • Playlist
  • STORIES
    • Musings
    • Heart To Heart
    • Careers
    • Bucket List
  • SIDDY TV
    • Youtube Channel
No Result
View All Result
Fashion & Lifestyle Blog - Pakistani Fashion Blog | SiddySays
No Result
View All Result

MASHKOOR RAZA AT EJAZ GALLERY

April 2, 2015

Mashkoor Raza is one of Pakistan’s most prominent painters and calligraphers- not just because he has been painting since 1972, but also because his work has established him as a global artist. Over a span of thirty years, Mashkoor Raza has fashioned a unique style of painting. Undoubtedly he is an abstract artist, but his use of the abstract form is singular. He has been labeled as an impressionist, a cubist and a distortionist, but the truth is that he is all these—and none at the same time.

Mashkoor Raza at Ejaz Gallery

The discerning Ejaz Gallery in Lahore recently held a solo exhibition of Raza’s work from the past five years. For takeaway work, Raza’s book Mashkoor Raza’s Journey, which is a compilation with Nadeem Zuberi, was also available for purchase. As followers of his work will know well, the dominant subjects in Raza’s work have always been horses and women. This exhibition was no different.

The exhibited Mashkoor Raza paintings resplendently portrayed all the elements one expects from Raza’s work: long strokes defining horses and men, images lost in abstract but found by light, beautiful silhouettes of women back dropped in hues of blue. As someone who loves horses and finds them to be majestic creatures, I fell in love with a monochrome canvas: three white horses, their outline and the outline of their riders cut out with sharp and indistinct strokes of black paint. It looked as if it was carved into the canvas.

Mashkoor Raza Paintings

Raza plays with the liminality of his subjects—sometimes reducing them to shadows within his work. It’s an exotic approach to painting women or horses. One would normally find the combination of the two strange, especially if the viewer sees a torso of a woman emerging, when seen from a particular angle, from a painting which predominantly depicts puffed-up horses in motion. But there is a certain harmony and tranquility on Raza’s canvas even when the two forms are juxtaposed.

Raza’s works show his preference for paler pastels. His calligraphy bears the same choice in colours. However it is his use of colours as a form of expression of the subject that gives his painting life.

Ejaz Gallery’s exhibition is a quintessential Mashkoor Raza exhibition—something worth experiencing at least once.

Mashkoor Rana at Ejaz Gallery
Mashkoor Rana at Ejaz Gallery
Mashkoor Rana at Ejaz Gallery

Mashkoor Raza has had 31 solo exhibits all over the world, has had his paintings selected by the Albert Museum in London for their official collection, and is the recipient of the 2007 Pride of Performance Award by the Government of Pakistan. He is at the peak of his achievements, and still going strong.

Share122Tweet76Share31
Khadija Bano

Khadija Bano

Related Posts

EMBARK ON A SCENTFUL JOURNEY WITH WOMEN’S PERFUMES BY IDEAS FRAGRANCE
Uncategorized

EMBARK ON A SCENTFUL JOURNEY WITH WOMEN’S PERFUMES BY IDEAS FRAGRANCE

November 21, 2022

To find your signature perfume that resonates with your personality and style is a long process. Which is why it takes years for us to find that unique combination of notes in women's fragrances.  But worry not! we’ve got...

TOP 9 ART GALLERIES IN LAHORE
Art & Artists

TOP 9 ART GALLERIES IN LAHORE

September 28, 2022

If you hold the love art, art galleries in Lahore can lull you in an art frenzy after you've come across a piece worth gazing. Art is an interesting way of expressing feelings. It gives no boundaries and there are...

HOW TO MAKE A GREAT FIRST IMPRESSION
Uncategorized

HOW TO MAKE A GREAT FIRST IMPRESSION

August 2, 2022

Some believe in the “First impression is the last impression.” However, many thoroughly oppose it by believing in “don’t judge a book by its cover.” Both may be right based on their experiences. But, I’ll go with the earlier...

DOBARA EP 30: AN OLD FLAME REIGNITES
Uncategorized

DOBARA EP 30: AN OLD FLAME REIGNITES

May 26, 2022

After seeing so many recent dramas with shoddy direction and miscasting, Danish Nawaz's direction and casting has outshined for Dobara, a drama series on Hum TV, with a progressive perspective on marriage with an unusual storyline. The performance of...

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Popular

  • TOP 5 PAKISTANI DESIGNERS FOR BRIDES ON A BUDGET

    2774 shares
    Share 1109 Tweet 693
  • 4 PLACES TO GET HOT POT IN LAHORE

    1340 shares
    Share 536 Tweet 335
  • 3 HIGHLY-ANTICIPATED UPCOMING DRAMAS IN RAMADAN 2022

    1301 shares
    Share 520 Tweet 325
  • MERUB ALI BIOGRAPHY- AGE, FAMILY, AND CAREER INFO

    1199 shares
    Share 480 Tweet 300
  • THE BEST BRIDAL MAKEUP ARTISTS IN LAHORE

    1092 shares
    Share 437 Tweet 273

Instagram

    © Copyright 2023 - All Rights Reserved.

    No Result
    View All Result
    • Home
      • Giveaways
      • Press
    • STYLE
      • Siddy Styles
      • Trends
      • Style Star
      • Fashion Features
      • The Edit
    • BEAUTY
      • Beauty Minute
      • Wellness
      • Hair
      • Makeup
      • Skin
    • LIFESTYLE
      • Interior Design
      • Wanderlust
      • Food Safari
      • Entertainment
      • Events
      • Five Favourites
    • CULTURE
      • Cinema
      • Design
      • Art & Artists
      • Playlist
    • STORIES
      • Musings
      • Heart To Heart
      • Careers
      • Bucket List
    • SIDDY TV
      • Youtube Channel