Shahzia Sikander

Shahzia Sikander received her BFA from the National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan in 1991. She received her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1995. Sikander is a Pakistani-born, and internationally recognized artist. She started her pioneering practice taking up Indo-Persian miniature painting as a point of departure. She challenges the traditional formal and strict expressions of miniature painting as well as its medium-based restrictions. She experiments with scale and media; media includes animation, video, and mural in collaboration with other artists. Her ideas for her work are based of the examination of the forces at stake in contested cultural and political histories. Her work has helped launch a major re-finding for the love of the art in creating miniature painting. Also, her work has helped build prophets for the Miniature Painting department in the Nineties at the National College of Arts in Lahore, inspiring many others to examine the miniature tradition.
I enjoyed the paintings because of the medium f water color. I believe it gave the pictures a flowing movement within the pieces of art. I also enjoyed the colors.

Big Ritz

Untitled, 1998

 

The World is Yours, The World is Mine

Maligned Monsters

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