Image and imagery of women

Website design By BotEap.comThe image of woman is as old as her association with Eve, she was first dreamed up by Adam as his counterpart; a well-accepted religious doctrine. In a social context, the image of her has always been present among all civilizations and societies since the Paleolithic, with the passage of time, which was excavated until the modern lifestyle of cyber life.

Website design By BotEap.comMan’s life has never been complete without the image of woman, but in the way he had wanted it to be, with a few exceptions of some sacred relationships and social bonds. The image of the woman developed mainly through the imagery of the man, so that, not surprisingly, she was sometimes placed as a sacred and divine goddess or demi-god under maximum intimacy, while at other times, at On the contrary, she carried the title of witch, prostitute and perpetual sinner. .

Website design By BotEap.comShe traveled through different phases portrayed throughout human history, explaining the power and intelligence in the Egyptian pyramids such as Hatshepsut (c.1503-1482 BC) and Cleopatra (c.69-30 BC). dignity she enjoyed as Parvati in South Asia. to second the mighty lord Shiva. She sparked two of the bloodiest battles in human history at the Trojan and Kurukshatre following the kidnapping of Helen and Sita; a common phenomenon in two different mythologies.

Website design By BotEap.comGreek and Hindu mythologies painted her with divine colors to accompany the graceful gods while religions held her responsible for exile from the tranquility of paradise being tempted towards an apple or a grain of wheat.

Website design By BotEap.comThe woman has been there, breathing Vedas, Puranas, Upanishads and Gospels, carved in and out of solid rock. The lustful hands of the artisans of all time, slid over the curves and contours of the female body each time it was caged in schist, sandstone or marble or their passionate gazes enriched the colors to be dragged over a surface in search of of eternity. She has been under the gaze for centuries, which has stretched the image of her on psychological and concrete canvases to title the artist’s images.

Website design By BotEap.comIn addition to male artists, female artists have also been among the admirers of female beauty. Frida Kahlo, Sylvia Sleige and Alice Neel bordered on gender-based issues through their brush, in and after the second half of the 20th century in the West, while in the East we could find names like Amrita Shergil and Zubeda Agha, innovative style and modern conceptual painting as they were also taught and skilled in the West.

Website design By BotEap.comIn 1939, Anna Molka Ahmed, a painter from the United Kingdom, established the Fine Arts department at the University of Punjab, which later became an institute to lick countless female painters emerging from the new country; Pakistan in 1947. Zubeda Agha was another name who introduced the modern style of painting to Pakistan.

Website design By BotEap.comZubeda Javed, Musarrat Hameed, Jalees Nagi, Salima Hashmi, Tanvir Rehman, few names to bridge the gap between the third quarter and the last decade of 20th century art in Pakistan.

Website design By BotEap.comSumera Jawad is a contemporary modern painter who was obsessed with portrait painting in the last years of the 20th century, but evolved intensely in the early 21st century.
In a recent exhibition at the GCU Gallery, texture is what a painter has expressed through the force of the imagined and perceived irregular passage of virtual life.

Website design By BotEap.comUnder the title of “Image and imagery of women” the painter Sumera Jawad has lived the pain of discovering bitter realities buried long ago. She has excavated with her brush, the buried history by revealing the “image” of women through her imaginary, that is why the myths, legends and literary characters of influential women are seen crawling between the scraped and scratched lines of thick and thin layers. of paint and printing ink.

Website design By BotEap.comThe painter has brought to light the women of different ancient civilizations regardless of time and place, from the naked girl of the Indus to the Celtic goddesses; Sumera has put an emphasis on the individuality and solidity of the most important character in society by exposing the image of women in front of modern contemporary women, she has portrayed by painting her own image within the frame, an inspiration that she might have absorbed due to the great French painter, Cézanne.

Website design By BotEap.comSumera, known for portraits depicting corporeal-looking women, has now turned to a genre that has revealed a centuries-old record preserved within genetics. As she now dedicates herself to research, she likes to explore various facets of women that could be seen displayed in the halls of yesteryear. The most intimate theme that runs through her work is the biblical concept of original sin, since the apple of discord is painted on the canvas, in a very suggestive way.

Website design By BotEap.comWe can observe a subtle contrast of light and shadow, very extended in his frames with lines; straight and round, circulating the figures skillfully. His lines are neither rough nor flowing, thus the great Sadequain and Chughtai stood out, and his could be called “exhumation or excavation”. Since it represented the social status of women chronologically, depicting their heights straight from history, she chose ambassador colors from the Mesolithic and Neolithic ages along with some overwhelming metallic hues.

Website design By BotEap.comIn other words, we can say that his work is an index and a reflection of days of yore. The extravagant dark, rustic and black tones show the depth of the buried elements, the deep brown tints that fade to gray, blue, bronze and then darken again, tell the story of a certain mental and emotional journey that you went through the artist during the demarcation process. images within an image.

Website design By BotEap.comSpeaking of composition, the female body is at the center of Sumera’s paintings, but not as a source of pleasure as male artists have always projected it. She has also used curves and lines of female figures to balance her canvas, but at the same time these postures, powered by centuries-old myths that include imposing goddesses along with the homage paid by the respective societies.

Website design By BotEap.comThe composition of his frames is mostly obstructed and tight, never letting the viewer’s eye wander from the painting. He has placed his characters in a very instinctive and natural way, since it was his brush that decided where to paint instead of his brain or his intentions, the expressionist approach has put an ambiguity in the faces of the figures making them cover images and universality due to unidentified gazes.

Website design By BotEap.comOne of his paintings very delightfully portrays the Greek myth of Pygmalion; a legendary figure found in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Pygmalion is a sculptor who falls in love with a statue that he has made. He offers the statue gifts and finally prays to Venus; the goddess of love, takes pity on him and gives life to the statue. Venus gives the name ‘Galatea’ to this statue.
Since the painter is now researching, each frame of her work seems to represent the past characters and myths in relation to women, and all this adds to the understanding of the “image of women” of the ancient era. and contemporary through the images that the painter herself has traversed. through.
The venue for this exhibition was Minhas Art Gallary Government College Lahore, opened by Dr. Shahida Manzoor, who is the coordinator of the University College of Art & Design, Punjab University Lahore.

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EMMA ALAM