17/06/2016
Nila Gumbad, or the 'blue dome' marks the tomb of Sufi saint just outside the Anarkali bazaar. In this painting however Nila Gumbad has tantalizingly been ignored.
The high view-point, looking down on the street, captures deftly the scene in colourful quick and simplified manner. The work appears to be impressionistic but is not. This vision and method of working was prevalent all over South Asia several decades before independence. Raza, an Indian painter was extremely successful in this sort of work, executed under the influence of Langhammer, a teacher at J.J school of art, Bombay. Ali Imam, his brother, brought the influence to Lahore. Najmi a close associate of Ali Imam, began to paint in this style. Soon however both like others of the Lahore art circle, begin to abstract their work
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