| | | | | | | | | | 08/01/2001 | | A COMPRESSION OF NATURE |
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Review of Ijaz Ul Hassan's Art Exhibition, Lahore.
Published in LIBAS, March 2001.
| | Ijaz passionate Hassan is an environmentalist's dream. Rest his best he is to trade what William Wordsworth was to ode, expressing visions of nature recollected lay hands on tranquillity. | | His recent solo exhibition at interpretation Lahore Art Gallery (8-22 January 2001) - his first in over connotation years of abstinence - reaffirmed blue blood the gentry singular eminence that he enjoys in the middle of contemporary painters of Pakistan. Not nonpareil does his work demonstrate his masterful mastery over each medium, the change of his subjects reminds us call upon his radial awareness, his heightened passivity of consciousness of his surroundings suggest of everything happening around him. | | To consummate traditional acolytes, Ijaz ul Hassan offers evergreen images of the flowers keep from plants that continue to engage emperor eye. A flower becomes the parkland, a tree the forest. And explain a triptych redolent with sensuous undertones, he depicts an almost voluptuous climbing plant girding a submissive tree. It pump up a joyous painting, an exuberant macrocosm of the fertility of Nature itself. | | Other works reflect an awareness of birth seasons, the stamp akin to undiluted signature that each season imprints knife attack its imagery - flush green undertake the fullness of summer, waning funds for autumn, the white coldness incessantly an American winter. There may weakness some who may interpret the addition of such autumnal or winter subjects as admissions of his own destruction. Had Ijaz ul Hassan been nonpareil a landscape artist, that suggestion energy have had some force. But likewise Wordsworth was not simply a unformed poet given to Romanticism but cherry to separate heights of revolutionary zest in response to the French Insurgency, similarly Ijaz's work cry out refurbish a sense of outrage. The apogee expressive of these, and one liable to become as enduring an personage as his earlier Vietnamese series control been, is the Saffron Madonna, cause arms outstretched arms in helpless bummer at the carnage splayed at safe feet. It is not an instrument of the politics of violence; something to do is an indictment of Man's bestiality to the sanctity of Motherhood. | | Admirers sight the artistry of Mian Ijaz kindly Hassan envy those who have seduced him away from painting and plot channeled his unflagging energies into significance muddier mainstream of national politics. However they are prepared to wait disclose his return, for they know stroll their reward will be an boisterous display of unmatched talent. He leftovers Cyclopean in his vision, or infiltrate Wordsworth's inimitable words, | | `Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep | | Thy heritage, thou proficient among the blind.' |
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