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Sadequain 20 years later - Khalid Hasan
Khalid Hasan writes on the great Pakistani master, Sadequain, in the current issue of the Friday Times:
“It is 20 years this year since Sadequain’s death. He would have been 77. When he died at the age of 57 (of what can only be called too much living), it was not his death that was surprising but how he had lived so long, given the white hot intensity with which he lived and painted, wrote and loved. He burned his candle at both ends, and had there been a third end, he would have burned it from that end too.”
And this great anecdote -
“…There are hundreds of Sadequain stories, but the one recounted by journalist Nasrullah Khan Aziz is characteristic. One day in Karachi, a man came up to Sadequain and said that he had a family to feed but nothing to feed it with. The only thing he knew was how to drive a rickshaw. Sadequain gave him 15 thousand rupees to buy a rickshaw, as long as he agreed to take him wherever he wanted to go. That arrangement lasted for some time, but one day, Sadequain said to him, “You are free. You don’t have to drive me around anymore.”
Read the full article here
September 26th, 2007 at 5:32 pm
That was a really cool post on Sadequain. I have learnt a lot about South Indian art, culture and history from your blog. I had never heard of Sadequain before…perhaps because he died when I was seven but I definitely enjoyed reading about him.
September 26th, 2007 at 11:33 pm
not a big fan of calligraphic art, especially one that involves Quranic verses, doesnt make any sense to decorate walls and ceilings of your mosques and holy places with quranic verses, when you should be reading and understanding the deep underlying meaning of the holy verses.
is that because he used quran as a source of inspiration ppl(muslims)adore him just like renessiance painters (i am excluding leonardo here)who were respected by the church/clergymen just because they painted murals and frescoes to add the beauty of their spacious cathedrals and churches.
In pakistan sadequain has the same position as the 17th century renaissance artists had in their times.
apart from this I loved the following painting by sadequain,
http://www.mughalarts.com/sadequain/paintings_15.htm