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Pakistani Calligraphy

Anwar Jalal Shemza And

Syed Sadiquain Ahmed Naqvi

Name Maryam Nawaz

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Anwar Jalal Shemza

• Anwar Jalal Shemza (14 July 1928 - 18 January

1985) was born Anwar Jalal Butt into a Kashmiri .

He was an artist and writer active in Pakistan and

later the United Kingdom.

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Anwar Jalal Shemza

• Shemza published several Urdu novels

and books of poetry in the 1950s and

wrote plays performed on Radio Pakistan.

British Career

• He worked as an arts teacher at Ounsdale

High School between 1962 and 1979 and

at Weston Road High School as head of

art and design between 1979 and 1985.

His Roots series started in the 1970s and showed

imaginary plants and roots derived from

Arabic script below while his silkscreen. The

Page from 1984 showed Arabic letters in

illegible patterns.

Pakistani Artist And Writer

• In 1947, he opened the Shemza Commercial Art

Studio in Lahore and adopted the name Anwar

Jalal Shemza.

• He quickly became a leading figure in Pakistan's

cultural life. Shemza was the editor of Ehsas, a

magazine on art and architecture.

Shemza was a leading member of a

modernist group called the Lahore Art

Circle. His early works showed a distinct

geometric structure

Syed Sadequain Ahmed Naqvi

• Sadequain was born in 1930 in a family

of calligraphers at Amorha in British

India. Sadequain started his artistic career

in 1940, when he joined the Progressive

Writers and Artists Movement.

Syed Sadequain Ahmed Naqvi

Sadequain was a deep thinker and

philosopher.. He was invited by the Indian

government in the 1980’s and during this tour

of India, the murals of Sadequain were affixed

at Aligarh, Banaras, Hyderabad and Delhi.

Syed Sadequain Ahmed Naqvi

• In 1954, the first solo exhibition of

the work of Sadequain was organized

in Quetta, Pakistan. His work was

much appreciated and soon he earned

his name for the Mural artwork.

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