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`If I knew what the picture was going to be like I wouldn't make it. It was almost like it was made already. The challenge is more about trying to make what you can't think of.' William Blake very well put this up. Expressing this alchemy of a painter were two Pakistani women artists Kahkashan Zafri and Yameena Peerzada with their works on display at Art Junction, the art gallery at InterContinental The Grand, just recently.
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Peerzada, a theatre artiste and puppeteer by profession, does not believe in attaching and giving names to her works. Believing that it would restrict the idea, she says, "Painting is just another expression of how you feel. It is like a personal part, being in love with performing arts." Puppets with exaggerated features in bright acrylic shades, and nudes in grids were part of the display. Nudes, she says, are a "recent phenomenon" in Pakistan. Her paintings are priced at Rs.10,000 each. Zafri on the other hand used an absolutely dark and rich colour palette with nature as her theme. She prefers a canvas range from 2/3 to 3/4 with both interior and commercial aspects in mind.
"It is easy to paint on smaller canvases. Moreover, people do not have such big rooms these days." Mohini Menon, wife of Shiv Shankar Menon, inaugurated the event. The inauguration invite promised the presence of Juhi Chawla but she was nowhere to be seen. Also present were former Pakistan High Commissioner Aziz Ahmed Khan and cartoonist Sudhir Tailang.
Khan remarked, "Exhibitions like these are one of the ways to foster better relations between India and Pakistan. Theses are talented artists and it is nice to see their works being exhibited in India."
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