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Loneliness, solitude and silence of soul
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June 10, 2011
Loneliness, solitude and silence seemed to envelop the scenes in the recent artworks of Mussarat Mirza at Chawkandi Art Gallery, Karachi. Her paintings portraying subjects such as empty staircase, lonely chair, deserted streets, abandoned old buildings where only dark windows are the link to the outside world. There is something soulful and mystical about these empty spaces she paints. Even the title of the exhibition 'Hain Muntazir' supports my point.

Her paintings in oils hints at deep moving experiences imbued with a pensive and sad meditative ambience. With overlapping sensitive lines and brush strokes she captures the features as well as sense of space, which helps create a multi-layered vision.

Her work appears simple, minimal and non-descriptive yet engages the viewer. She finds true projection of herself in soulful solitary scenes with dusty atmosphere and silence. The soothing charm of her paintings is uplifting and elevating at times

The dull colours reveal the truth within images softly fading into oblivion. The blurry hues used to paint the landscapes-of the mind. Earth tones reflect fuzzy dreams. She captures the true essence of her subjects - be it landscapes or cityscapes.


Mussarat Mirza obtained a MFA from the Punjab University Fine Arts Department in 1964. Since then, her work adapted a contemporary approach to a strong sense of environmental identity. She has projected the essence of her subjects. Thus the work, generated from specific locations and people, seems beyond the world of appearances.

Liberated from the world of appearances, the tangible she works on her own imagined universe, the landscape of the soul, where she wants the viewer to read tangible realities. The conceptual contents of her paintings are vigorous and therefore hold the viewers attention. She translates her feelings almost literally in her canvases by dramatic use of contrasting light and shade of a vibration of one low colour against another. The strong and energetic vision of internal relation of a person's body and soul is presented by her in a unique and influential manner. She forms semi realistic scenes by forceful brush strokes skilfully achieving the detail representation of her subject.

Blurring human figures and architectural details is her iconic style from the beginning of her career. Her rustic figures and buildings, homes and trees all in a cubist patterns with lurking cones, spheres, squares, oblongs, triangle and cubes enveloped in a blaze of light bouncing off the objects and figures.

She portrays human condition through philosophical and aesthetic artworks. Her knowledge and insight helps her rendering mental states of people effectively.

Her exceptional skills turn the canvas into a hazed reality which emerges from the heavy texture and specks of colours. The traces of figures and objects peep through the broken patches of colours. Her tonal painting brilliantly portrays her subject under changing tones of colour and light on different sides of an object or figure.

The different hues of dull colours merge into each other without losing their identities concealing the composition into darkness; there is sometimes a ray of light indicating hope. The series is different from Mussarrat's famous deserted scenes of Sukkur and other nearby villages, especially those seen from the roof top. The dusty atmosphere of her paintings with a few natural colours - browns, greens and blue-greens in subdued tones with a pinch of red shows her signature style.

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