Art for Allah
combination of traditional,abstract and contemporary art
Throughout the Islamic history,calligraphy remained the most honoured of the fine arts,but it is not taught in any of goverement colleges of Pakistan,By---SAJ Shirazi
Published in daily (The Nations)sunday,October 4th ,1998.
If the artists looked like their work,Hamid Iqbal would be instantly recognisable,Standing in the classroom of Art Bank,School of fine Arts and Calligraphy on the whiteboard with a pen in his hand,infront of enthralled audiencehe writes syllables,words and groups of words in different scripts,one after the other,in Nastaliq,Naskh,Sulus,Koofi,Diwani,every performance is so perfect that it is painful to see it wiped off the board.
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