Art For Art's Sake

How good should the paintings be from an artist who has no training as artist, is all self-taught, and from time available from working as an orthopaedic surgeon in an NHS hospital finds a little time every now and then to push the laptop away from the study table and start to paint, only to satisfy the inner desire to express? Henri Matisse once said that he wanted his art to be like an armchair where one could relax after a busy day...what makes an artwork a work of art? Does the label of Piccasso to an abstract artwork suddenly make it a masterpiece of modern art, even if you would need Tim Marlow's eye to see the real art in it? Over the years, art which was the domain of kings and churches and depicted historical and religeous stories became the expression of common man to convey the feelings of everyday life, and eventually to come to street in the form of graffities and street art...and now art is everywhere, there is no bar on how the art is going to look like..the good, the bad and the ugly.







Painting for me is to express what I see around me, it is a means to diffuse my stresses and makes me happy even if I am the only person to like a particular work, after all there is something unique in it: it's my work! So go ahead and see the work I have done in the last couple of years, if you like it, do write to me and if you don't, still write to me and let me know why I should stop painting and start doing something else...



Navid Qureshi.



Saturday, 19 June 2010

Food Street, Lahore

The night life scene in Lahore's food street is fascinating and I have tried to capture it a number of times, this offering done with more rapid brush strokes and completed in a couple of hours.
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Wednesday, 16 June 2010

Calligraphy


Quranic Calligraphy, written on four separate canvases, to be read as one.
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Monday, 7 June 2010

Tent Peggers: Calm Before the Storm

Tent-pegging is an old equestrian sport, which started out when horsemen of an attacking army will send its best men to remove the pegs of the enemy's tents while they're sleeping.Today, tent pegging is practised around the world, but is especially popular in Australia, India, Israel, Oman, Pakistan, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. The Olympic Council of Asia included tent pegging as an official sport in 1982, and the International Federation for Equestrian Sports recognised it as an official equestrian discipline in 2004. From the results of the 2008 International Tent Pegging Championships, the world's three leading national teams are currently Canada, India, and Oman.

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