Ismail Gulgee
Gulgee گل جی | |
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Born | Ismail Gulgee 25 October 1926 |
Died | 16 December 2007 Karachi, Pakistan | (aged 81)
Resting place | Imam Muslim Cemetery, Karachi |
Nationality | Pakistani |
Education |
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Known for | Islamic calligraphy, Painting, Sculptures |
Movement | Islamic calligraphy |
Spouse | Zareen Gulgee |
Children | 2 |
Awards | |
Website | ismail-gulgee |
Ismail Gulgee (
Born in
On 19 December 2007, he was found murdered at his house with his wife and maid. After a lengthy investigation,
Early life and education
Gulgee was born on 25 October 1926 at Karimpura locality in
Painting style
Before 1959, as a portraitist, Gulgee painted the entire
According to the
Beginning in the 1960s (if not earlier), Gulgee (along with his younger brother Agha Sadaruddin (a well-known filmmaker and photographer for Time and Life), also created sculptures, including bronze pieces that were (like so many of his paintings) calligraphic in form and inspiration, and sometimes specifically based on verses from the Quran.[6]
His son Amin Gulgee is also a famous artist.[1]
International and special assignments
Guljee received many requests for his paintings internationally, from the
Painting exhibitions
Gulgee held his first painting exhibition in 1950.[2]
Gulgee's exhibitions have mostly been available to few people. Keeping that in mind and high public demand, an art gallery for Gulgee has been built in
Murder
Gulgee, his wife Zarrin Gulgee and a maid were found dead by strangulation
Meanwhile, Gulgee's driver and another servant were arrested by the police as suspects and tried in court. The court case lingered on for many years. Finally, in May 2017, both of them were convicted and handed down life imprisonment sentences.[9]
Awards and recognition
- Pride of Performance Award in 1970 by the President of Pakistan[2][8]
See also
- Islamic calligraphy (primary source of inspiration for Gulgee's abstract works)
- Gestural abstraction)
- Elaine Hamilton (American action painter and colleague who influenced Gulgee, according to Partha Mitter)
- Mixed media
- Abstract expressionism
- Amjad Ali, S. Gulgee, Versatile Artist. Islamabad: Idara Saqafat-e-Pakistan, 1984 OCLC 12811086 (Worldcat link)
- Ismaili, Mohammad. Gulgee (ISBN 969-0-01428-5
- Mitter, Partha. Indian art (Oxford History of Art) (Oxford: ISBN 0-19-284221-8 (This book deals with the history of art in the entire South Asian subcontinent, including what are today modern Pakistan and Bangladesh.)
- Naqvi, Akbar. Image and Identity: Fifty Years of Painting and Sculpture in Pakistan. (Karachi and New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).
References
- ^ a b c d e f g "Pakistani artist Ismail Gulgee found murdered". CBC News. 19 December 2007. Archived from the original on 2 June 2008. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Gulgee profile". Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government (kp.gov.pk) website. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
- ^ a b c "Top Pakistani artist 'murdered'". BBC News website. 19 December 2007. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
- ^ Tanoli, Ishaq (4 February 2017). "Nine years on, Gulgee murder trial remains inconclusive". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ "Gulgee, wife's murderers handed down life imprisonment". The Express Tribune. 23 May 2017. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ a b c Profile of Ismail Gulgee on artnet.com website Retrieved 6 July 2019
- ^ "Modern Art in West and East Pakistan". Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) website. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ a b c d Ismail Gulgee (profile) Clifton Art Gallery website, Retrieved 6 July 2019
- ^ Zubair Ashraf (23 May 2017). "Gulgee, wife's murderers handed down life imprisonment". The Express Tribune (newspaper). Retrieved 6 July 2019.
External links
- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York): discussion of modern art in Pakistan (including COLOR IMAGE of a 1999 Gulgee work)
- Artnet Resource Library biography of Gulgee