ISLAMABAD: Artists community acknowledged and remembered the extra-ordinary contributions of a distinguished painter `Gulgee'in the field of visual arts, on his 5th death anniversary on Sunday.
Gulgee was an artist of immense stature and an icon of art, well known and respected at home and internationally for his unique art.
He has the honour of painting most of the crowned heads and leading statesmen of the world and created mosaics in stone (Lapis-Lazuli).
Gulgee has earned fame globally for his expressionistic paintings and calligraphies.
Talking to APP, Director General Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA), Tauqeer Nasir said artists like Gulgee born in centuries and his death created a vacuum in the field of visual arts which can never be filled.
The skills of Gulgee were considered as an academy of visual arts and state institutions should promote such skills to preserve their art as well as educate younger generation about their legends.
The DG informed that the national art gallery of PNCA has issued memorial cards to pay tribute lifetime achievements of Gulgee in the fields of visual arts. while, his popular works are also on display in the section of permanent collection of the PNCA.
"Gulgee still remembered our heart and mind and his stunning innovations drawn from beauty, colour and light shall continue to inspire generation in times to come", Tauqeer Nasir said.
Gulgee has emerged enormously as a painter, his paintings were bright and full of color, but the paint was put on with greater sensitivity and paintings vibrated with intense feeling.
Areas sung with luminous thin color, thick blobs of paint pulsated with fiber-glass tears, the brush swirled strong and free.
The total effect was very gray, yet considered and well thought out. He worked extremely well as it was all orchestrated with great care and concentration.
His paintings were often commissioned, or went abroad and therefore only reached relatively small audience.
Gulgee was awarded Sitara-e-Imtiaz twice, Hilal-e-Imtiaz and Pride Performance also. He earned countless national and international honours and accolades for his meritorius services as a painter.
His ultimately death came as a blow to the community and the nation lost a beacon of humans love, affection and sobriety.
Gulgee was symbol of dynamism, force, energy and power and he lived his life with an unprecedented humility and sublimity.
According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Gulgee's calligraphy paintings are abstract and gestural interpretations of Arabic and Urdu letters.
His sweeping layers of paint explore the formal qualities of oil paint while they make references to Islamic design elements".
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