ART EXPLORATIONS OF CHUGHTAI ART SERIES FIVE; ETCHINGS AND AQUATINTS AND ENGRAVED PLATES; WESTERN MEDIA UNDER PERFECTION EASTERN HANDS.

ART EXPLORATIONS OF CHUGHTAI ART SERIES FIVE;
ETCHINGS AND AQUATINTS AND ENGRAVED PLATES;
WESTERN MEDIA UNDER PERFECTION EASTERN HANDS.

It was preferable to jump to coloured things, but the engraved scene was important enough to take our hands on it. The complete tale is on our blog and entitled EAST MET WEST and it can not only be read there, but also downloaded by anyone interested in same. Sir Frank Short said the final word in 1936. You are learning a Western technique, do not lose your Eastern touch anytime. Paul Drury said other things. Your head is a bank of faces, from where you can draw a face at will by drawing a cheque on it. Western artists loved him even in the 1920s and 1930s. Our modern artists vomit an indigestible Chughtai. For them this mixture of East and West is dangerous for their existence. Chughtai erased this opposition within his own lifetime.

Exhibition on etchings have been held many times. Main exhibition shows were in Japan, American Centre Lahore and Grosvenor Gallery London. Charles Moore is happy to consult with us at times. Thanks Charles! You are fun.

6 thoughts on “ART EXPLORATIONS OF CHUGHTAI ART SERIES FIVE; ETCHINGS AND AQUATINTS AND ENGRAVED PLATES; WESTERN MEDIA UNDER PERFECTION EASTERN HANDS.”

  1. Estimated 300 etchings, 230 plus on record, 80 plus plates on record. MARC had desire in 1946 to print the book ETCHINGS OF CHUGHTAI. The dream was repeated in 1949. In 1980s we tried our best to take out an edition. But of our financial league to print a book of which only few copies will be sold, was out of question. There is no market for Art books in Pakistan. Most publications do not even realize their printing costs. The art of selling in Pakistan like many publishers know, is to bribe people in power. That is something beyond our league. Corruption is not our way of life.

  2. Quite true. Foreign lobbies buy publishers first hand. A publisher given the manuscript of LETTERS TO MERAJUDDIN FROM LONDON BY M.A. RAHMAN CHUGHTAI, has not printed same in 29 years. When Anti Pakistani literature is being printed all the time. Art and literature is not power, money is the crass publishers food.

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