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Sufi Zikr - inspiration for a painting
This is a painting that I revisited and converted its earlier abstract form into a calligraphic experiment. Now the challenge was that in addition to the lack of training in oil painting…
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July 9th, 2007 at 9:34 am
bohat umda…kyaa baat hai! great to see such art…it’s rare to see such a painting. Calligraphy looks good…I think it it were done perfectly it wouldn’t have created this kind of impact…
July 9th, 2007 at 9:35 am
….some mistake….not it it…but ‘if’ it
July 9th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
Beautiful!
That explanation brings to mind a poem of Eliot’s; perhaps he borrowed this from Sufi poetry…
“Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.”
July 9th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
Adnan and IMM: great feedback - but I have a long journey ahead …alas
Am touched by your comments
July 9th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
beautiful indeed!
July 10th, 2007 at 1:50 pm
The choice of colours for the background is beautiful.
July 13th, 2007 at 1:13 am
This painting came into being
as an abstraction, now the calligraphy
of inspiration has transformed it
into a love poem in color
for Him.
May Allah inspire you always in such beauty.
Ya Haqq!
July 23rd, 2007 at 12:09 pm
Defination of a man of god: His company reminds you of the Magnificient, the Merciful, the Omniscient…today your painting reminded me of Him