Artist : Tariq JAVED b1952
Title : Rajasthani Women
Year : 2006
Type : Oil on Canvas
Size : 41.7″ x 29.5″ (106cm x 75cm)

Other : Signed and dated ‘06

Gallery Ref : tj001

Price : SOLD

A well renowned senior artist, is a graduate of the Karachi School of Art. He feels that an artist should be free and not bound by a particular style. As a result, through the last three decades he has covered a wide field of art. From realistic to semi-abstract and abstract, his works are not of any particular style or theme. He loves to experiment with different mediums .

Tariq Javed occupies an important position in Pakistan’s scene of contemporary paintings. He is a painter, sculptor, and ceramist and there is a bit of all in every medium that he is exclusively working on the solidity of the ’sculpture’ the plasticity of the ceramics make his paintings somewhat different and likewise, his sculptures and ceramic imbibe a lot of ‘wavelike’ facility given to a painter draws upon colors to share with us statements of his mind.

The connoisseurs and students of art look upon Tariq Javed’s work as aesthetic statements from an artist who is somewhat different from the run of the mill variety. Least pretentious then he is, it is his commitment to art which seems to have invested him with vigour and an eye for detail which makes his particular experience an aesthetic joy for the lovers of art.

Tariq’s main preoccupation has been with abstractionism. With him it is more than mere abstractionism. It denotes the impatience with logical and mathematical realities. The moment they are reduced to abstract approximations they look so different – capable of exciting our membranes. It is somewhere in the juxtaposition of abstract into realism and vice versa that a great deal of artistic propensities have taken refuge. Tariq has not resorted to realism but it is not something to practise necessarily. It lives in our psyche as an overwhelming visual reality and a sensitive painter keeps on grappling with the weight of its omnipresence.