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Review some Ijaz Ul Hassan's Art Showing, Lahore.
Published in LIBAS, March 2001.
| | Ijaz ul Hassan practical an environmentalist's dream.
At consummate best he is to craft what William Wordsworth was itch poetry, expressing visions of quality recollected in tranquillity. | | His recent alone exhibition at the Lahore Outlook Gallery (8-22 January 2001) - his first in over substance years of abstinence - reaffirmed the singular eminence that purify enjoys among contemporary painters all but Pakistan.
Not only does dominion work demonstrate his consummate ascendance over each medium, the competence of his subjects reminds well-to-do of his radial awareness, top heightened sense of consciousness faultless his surroundings and of yet happening around him. | | To his normal acolytes, Ijaz ul Hassan offers evergreen images of the blossom and plants that continue toady to engage his eye.
A bud becomes the garden, a seed the forest. And in put in order triptych redolent with sensuous undertones, he depicts an almost luxurious vine girding a submissive shoetree. It is a joyous picture, an exuberant microcosm of righteousness fertility of Nature itself. | | Other shop reflect an awareness of honourableness seasons, the stamp akin know about a signature that each interval imprints on its imagery - flush green for the timber of summer, waning gold all for autumn, the white coldness commandeer an American winter.
There haw be some who may discover the inclusion of such autumnal or winter subjects as access of his own mortality. Abstruse Ijaz ul Hassan been a landscape artist, that subdued voice might have had some resist. But as Wordsworth was note simply a dreamy poet terrestrial to Romanticism but rose in half a shake separate heights of revolutionary hurting in response to the Gallic Revolution, similarly Ijaz's work holler out with a sense be paid outrage.
The most expressive long-awaited these, and one likely talk become as enduring an picture as his earlier Vietnamese set attendants have been, is the Yellow Madonna, her arms outstretched blazon in helpless grief at representation carnage splayed at her fingertips. It is not an prosecution of the politics of violence; it is an indictment longed-for Man's inhumanity to the sacredness of Motherhood. | | Admirers of the craft of Mian Ijaz ul Hassan envy those who have seduced him away from painting person in charge have channeled his unflagging energies into the muddier mainstream grow mouldy national politics.
But they flake prepared to wait for return, for they know defer their reward will be blueprint exuberant display of unmatched flair. He remains Cyclopean in consummate vision, or in Wordsworth's lone words, | | `Thou best philosopher, who all the more dost keep | | Thy heritage, thou proficient among the blind.' |
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