Category: Painting
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Gulgee (1926 – 2007) is Pakistan’s most action calligraphy artist. Recipient of Pride of performance, Sitara-e-Imtiaz, Hilal-e-Imtiaz, the artist received several awards and international acknowledgement during his lifetime. His work featured prominently in art publications and the artist rose to global fame in his lifetime. Originally having been trained as an engineer, Gulgee is a…
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Imran Mudassar has Bachelors in Fine Arts with a Distinction from National College of Arts, and was awarded the Award of Excellence by Alhamra Art Gallery, Lahore. He has shown in Art Hong Kong (2010), “Assemble Reassemble”, Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi (2010). He has completed a residency at the Visual Art Collective (Khoj International…
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Asif Ahmed graduated from National College of Art in 2004 with a BFA 1st Division, Distinction in Miniature Painting. The artist has participated in several group and solo exhibitions in Pakistan and abroad. His modern miniatures explore traditional art, political intrigue, power and blending history with the modern. Asif Ahmed’s miniatures have been auctioned internationally and…
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UNICORN Gallery Cordially invites you to: ‘IJAZ UL HASSAN – Five Decades of Painting‘ Book Launch. Dr Musarrat Hasan, Mrs Shehla Saigol, Professor Quddus Mirza Will be the guest speakers On Thursday 17th August 2017 at 5:00 pm At Unicorn Gallery 32-B-2, Main Gulberg, Lahore, Pakistan. R.S.V.P. 0300 8260580, 0333 3326308 Email: unicorngallery@gmail.com info@unicorngalleryblog.com
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Ayesha Durrani
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Ayesha Durrani is a leading modern miniaturist artist. Having graduated from the prestigious National College of Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Art degree, Ayesha has held several international exhibitions including at Aicon Gallery in New York and Gallery 27 Cork Street, London, Dubai, New Delhi, Unicorn Gallery Karachi and Lahore etc. Ayesha Durrani draws…
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Gulgee (born 1926 died 2007) was an award winning master artist famous for his abstract action and calligraphy paintings. Gulgee was a trained Engineer by Profession and a self-taught artist; he received acclaim for his realistic portraits and commissions most notably those of the Royal Family and Prince Aga Khan. Ismail Gulgee was the recipient…
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Dua Abbas majored in Painting from The National College of Arts, Lahore and graduated with Distinction in 2009. Dua’s work is influenced by two decades of reading fiction and poetry and an inclination towards narrative storytelling. Dua has participated in several exhibitions in Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Dubai and Delhi and is an active art reviewer…
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Tassaduq Sohail, a well-known contemporary painter, was born in Jullundar in 1930 and later migrated to Lahore. His family moved him to Karachi in 1952. In Karachi, he found a rich Urdu literary circle and joined them where he was termed as qissa-go, for his talent of tale-narrating, by Muhammad Hasan Askari, the urdu teacher…
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Mohammad Ali Bhatti is a renowned portrait painter. The artist has a Master in Fine Arts from the Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, and PhD degree in Interdisciplinary Arts from the Ohio University. M A Bhatti paints realistic representation oil on canvas portraits and has exhibited his art worldwide including in Pakistan, India, Malaysia, United States of…
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Hanif Shahzad is a senior painter best known for his cityscape paintings of Karachi. The artist has participated in a number of exhibitions and enjoys immense popularity amongst art collectors. Hanif Shahzad is a Karachi School of Art graduate and won first prize in a KSA competition in 1986. The artist’s large oil on canvas…
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SHAHID JALAL (Born 1948) is one of the outstanding members of the Association who has no art qualification from any institution and has therefore not been mentioned in their context. He has developed a style of his own which is executed with thick impasto brush strokes, the surface being further divided to form a subtle…
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To purchase this artwork email: unicorngallery@gmail.com or call us +92 300 8260580 Imran Mudassar has Bachelors in Fine Arts with a Distinction from National College of Arts, and was awarded the Award of Excellence by Alhamra Art Gallery, Lahore. He has shown in Art Hong Kong (2010), “Assemble Reassemble”, Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi (2010).…
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Unicorn Gallery owner Seemah Niaz talks about Pakistani Art at an art auction in London today #pakistaniart #pakistaniartists #seemahniaz #unicorngallery #artauction #christies #sothebys #bonhams #centrallondon #highstreet
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UNICORN GALLERY is delighted to present ‘INSCAPE’, an exhibition of new nature-based paintings on 28 FEBRUARY 2017 by contemporary land/seascape painter Soraya Sikander. Download the exhibition Press Release: unicorn-gallery-soraya-sikander-press-release Read the Artist’s statement on her work: unicorn-gallery-soraya-sikander-artist-statement
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Waseem Ahmed
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Waseem Ahmed is a modern miniaturist based in Germany. Born in Hyderabad, Pakistan (1976) Waseem graduated from National College of Arts in 2000 with “Honors” in the field of Miniature Painting. He mixes Mughal tradition, fusing it with modern elements and through his work he comments on contemporary socio-political events. Waseem has participated in several solo…
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Ayesha Durrani
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Ayesha Durrani is a modern miniaturist. She graduated in 2003 from the National College of Arts with a BFA. Ayesha has held several international exhibitions including at Aicon Gallery New York and Gallery 27 Cork Street, London, Dubai, New Delhi etc. Ayesha Durrani draws out feminist topics through her work exploring themes of female…
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Attiya Shaukat has a BFA in Fine Arts from National College of Arts as well as from the Lahore College of Women. Through her work she explores her personal narrative. Having suffered paralysis, the artist highlights images of spines, vertebrae and mechanical parts. Attiya uses the age-old tradition of miniature painting and incorporates it into modern…
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New paintings at Unicorn
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Khalid Iqbal (1929-2014) was born in 1929 and has always been a believer in representational painting. Khalid Iqbal paints through a process of acute observation and an understanding and feeling for his subject matter. He painted in Lahore for more than forty years before his death. Khalid Iqbal’s influence on painting in Lahore has been…
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Hajra is one of today’s most established leading Pakistani artists. With a Diploma in Fine Arts from Government College of Art and Craft, Lucknow in 1964, Hajra is thre recipient of numerous art awards including Karachi Arts Exhibition at Arts Council, Karachi in 1966 and in 1982, she got the First prize in Haidar Awards, conducted by Abasin…
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Mansoor Rahi is a senior painter born in 1939 in West Bengal. The artist graduated from Government College of Art and Craft in Dhaka and is known for his figurative Cubist paintings. Rahi held his first exhibition in 1957 and has exhibited extensively in Dhaka, Tokyo, Karachi, Peshawar, Rawalpindi etc. Mansoor Rahi has won several…
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Mian Ijaz Ul Hassan had teachers like Moyene Najmi and Khalid Iqbal during his school days. He has a history of more than forty years of painting behind him. In his early years he seems to have been influenced by Gaugin, but he was experimenting all the time. He used his immense sense of design…
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