Hues of Spring
(Bahaar ky Rang)
Landscapes are works of art that feature scenes of nature and Landscape painting captures that world around us. Landscape painting has thrived and is now one of the most popular genres among the art critics, artists and collectors. A traditional view point of Pakistan's landscape over the years, artists have turned to the settings – the green vegetation, five rivers of Punjab – that can be seen in the paintings of our Pioneer artist like Ustad Allah Baksh, in the early years of country independence. He used European-style realistic landscape which depicted Punjab agrarian life and setting of romanticism of South Asian Culture. Secondly, Khalid Iqbal, the most influential and important landscape painter of the country – used both the Renaissance design and Cezanne’s way of chromatic structuring from painting. Following his students Zulqarnain Haider, Ghulam Mustafa, Ijaz ul Hassan, Ghulam Rasul assimilated the local palette using the Modern Realism. Further, Shahid Jalal, as a landscape painter, used gardens and parks to document new settings as exploring the subject matter as his theme work constantly.
As summer prevails longer duration in the region, Punjab – it becomes difficult to paint in the constant heat, thus keeping in view, the painter’s opt to paint during the best season Spring as it is very so vigorating for spot painting : Spring (Bahar), the regrowth and rejuvenation that brings life – flourishing leaves, blooming flowers, reminiscent melodies, this balmy weather with mild sunshine refreshing breeze and the burst of colours brought on wild flowers with a plethora of flowering plants on the trails are the new settings opted by the painters.Landscape have been taken to a new variety of places with new interpretations and are producing a large body of work with common subject matter discovering Parks and gardens like Gillani park, Model town park, Bagh-e- jinnah etc specially focusing flowers like Marigold, Roses, Mustard flowers, Amaltas trees, water lilies exploring ponds and rivers that survive on the fringes of rural Punjab and on the outskirts of Lahore city. Exploring the beautiful hues of Spring securing the exudes rays of light, these flowers give colours of luminosity to the painting which are not seen anywhere, but the painter captures these colours of nature through their palette.
Zahra Athar (Art Analyst & Historian)
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