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Review of Ijaz Ul Hassan's Art Exhibition, Lahore.
Published in LIBAS, March 2001.
| | Ijaz ul Hassan is an environmentalist's dream. At his best he is to painting what William Wordsworth was to poetry, expressing visions of nature recollected in tranquillity. | | His recent solo exhibition at the Lahore Art Gallery (8-22 January 2001) - his first in over eight years of abstinence - reaffirmed the singular eminence that he enjoys among contemporary painters of Pakistan. Not only does his work demonstrate his consummate mastery over each medium, the range of his subjects reminds us of his radial awareness, his heightened sense of consciousness of his surroundings and of everything happening around him. | | To his traditional acolytes, Ijaz ul Hassan offers evergreen images of the flowers and plants that continue to engage his eye. A flower becomes the garden, a tree the forest. And in a t
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