LAHORE
Musarrat Hasan’s Retrospective Exhibition of painting was launched at the Zulfi’s Art Gallery was a major event in the field of painting. It was thronged by well-known artists, academics and art-lovers.
The exhibition includes Musarrat’s great range of works spanning the sixties to the present day. Each work is unique in the sense that it expresses its own particular concern. The portrait gallery of her works has an extraordinary diversity. The portraits range from men and women, young and old, representing terrible social divide of our society. Occasionally individuals are assembled together in assorted composition. Musarrat abstains from flattery. She observes intently but causally peeps in the mind. The exhibition also includes some refreshing landscapes. These are supplemented by intimately painted still-life that appear as moments captured in time.
Quddus Mirza maintains, that Musarrat is an artist who reaches the essence or rather the soul of things and portrays what takes place beyond the lense of the human eye. Her portraits defy the dependence on a mechanical look to record resemblances.
Accordingly to Marjorie Husain, “Dr Musarrat Hasan is an icon in the world of culture in Pakistan.” She is author of six books on Pakistan’s famous artists and art history. The exhibition will remain open till 7th of May, 2017.
