Painting And Calligraphy

Due to religious restraints, in the early societies the natural creative instinct of figure making, sculpturing and modelling found expression in more useful arts like ornamental writing (khattati or calligraphy), sketching decorative emblems and monograms (tughra), making geometrical and floral diagrams, illuminating the texts and covers of books with golden and silver designs and inscribing designs and letters into wood and metal.

After the spread of the remotest parts of the world, in the following centuries, under local influences, however, the Muslim artists also started painting living objects. In the Mughal courts, Iranian painters executed life like miniature paintings.

The Mughal art was an amazing synthesis of Central Asian, Chinese, Iranian and local painting forms and techniques. Painting tradition of Pakistan has inherited mainly from the Mughav tradition. Abdur Rahman Chughtai (1897-1975) is the greatest exponent of the school.

 

 

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