Painter Jehanzeb Malik depicts healthy beauty of K-P
Besides depicting landscapes, he has also embellished portraits of Pakhtun men. PHOTOS: PUBLICITY
PESHAWAR: Among all a contemporary artists of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P), few have embellished landscapes as splendid and clear as Jehanzeb Malik. In fact, his work is not merely an fabrication of a province’s immeasurable landscapes though rather an aesthetically appealing depiction of eternal, healthy beauty.
“My art is conjunction utopian, nor mired in a darkness,” Malik told The Express Tribune, while portrayal another bright-coloured square of landscape. His paintings give off a certain vibe, with a attract that draws a spectator in.
Malik’s imagination in landscape paintings has warranted him a apart temperament that took years of bid and struggling opposite a contingency to build. “When Pakistan was created, Ghani Khan, a good philosopher, producer and sculptor, was a usually item in this partial of a country,” pronounced Malik, who has turn famous as a “indomitable fighter” of art in KPK. “There was conjunction any establishment to foster art, nor did a organisation authorities ever concentration on compelling it.”
According to Malik, it was a efforts of a few people who set adult a Abasin Arts Council that lerned dozens of artists. But now, things have come to a delay due to a prevalent socio-economic conditions and no efforts are being done to take art further. “Now we have artists with no opportunities to uncover their work to a world,” Malik lamented.
Malik’s selected middle is oil on canvas. When asked about any other medium, a painter simply replied, “I can’t work in another medium.” The design is well-structured and Malik’s inventiveness and tough work are apparent in each piece. Besides depicting landscapes, he has also embellished portraits of some normal Pakhtun men, station out opposite a backdrop of nature. “Under a bizarre fragile light, we try to emanate effects of assent and tranquility,” he explained. “I have attempted to hide a landscapes and portraits with splendid colours, that advise a certain side of life.”
What is clear in most of Malik’s work is adore of his country, as many of them etch renouned chronological sites of Pakistan. “I fell in adore with these chronological structures,” he said. “I felt like, a apart past all around me, gave me certainty to rise it on a canvas.”
Himself lerned during Abasin Arts Council and then, underneath a organisation of some eminent artists such as Shahzad Sultan Haider and Mansoor Rahi, Malik has won a S.S. Haider, Guljee and Ghani Khan Awards. He is a first member of Abbotabad Arts Council and so far, has hold 15 exhibitions of his paintings and calligraphy outward Pakistan.
In sequence to compensate loyalty to comparison artists of his province, Malik also recently authored a book entitled Mere Mussawir, Mere Dost, wherein he has discussed a art work of 90 artists from KPK. But distinct other immature painters, who protest about a miss of direct for art, roughly all of Malik’s paintings have been sold, essentially to art enthusiasts from opposite Pakistan.
Published in The Express Tribune, Oct 18th, 2016.
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