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    Rewriting History Reimagining the Female

    Zohreen Murtaza
    Bodhisattvas may be represented as deities that can be considered equivalent to Buddha in knowledge. Interestingly some visual manifestations of these bodhisattvas have no gender at all while others such as in the Far East have fused with local traditions and folklore so that they resemble beautiful female divinities who are worshipped for their compassion, ability to sacrifice and grant children. Perhaps geography, the movement of people, goods and resultant cross-fertilization of ideas across regions has helped inform the gender and varied physiognomies of Bodhisattvas in sculpture.

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    Pakistan Art

    Sarfraz Musawir

    A solo exhibition by Sarfraz Musawir at Art One 62 Gallery recently left his viewers mesmerised by his current body of work. Sarfraz Musawir is one of Pakistan’s most well respected and well established watercolourist. Bold, beautiful and striking his work always stands out. The artist was born in 1969 in the small town of Umerkot, Sindh. He completed his Masters in Physics from the University of Sindh and later went on to receive his Diploma in Fine Arts. The artist specialises in monuments, cityscapes, landscapes.

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    ENGAGING WITH GRIEF AND INERTIA IN "ZINDA DARGORE" (BURIED ALIVE)

    Zohreen Murtaza
    Grieving figures in Persian manuscript paintings are rare but when depicted they are shown beating their chests in distress such as in a famous painting by Bihzad that narrates the despair of a son leading his father's mourning procession. Distraught, he lays his bare chest open or attempts to tear his clothes apart. An iconic scene that often appears in the Shahnama is that of a devastated Rustam, wailing and tearing his shirt as soon as he realizes that he has unknowingly killed his own son. In Mughal paintings,

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