Art Craft & Calligraphy

1. Topic
Pakistani
Calligraphy
Anwar Jalal Shemza
And
Syed Sadiquain
Ahmed Naqvi

2. Name Maryam Nawaz
Roll No 13023901-
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4. Anwar Jalal Shemza
• Anwar Jalal Shemza (14 July 1928 - 18
January 1985) was born Anwar Jalal Butt
into a Kashmiri .
 He was an artist and writer active in
Pakistan and later the United Kingdom.

5. Anwar Jalal Shemza
• Shemza published several Urdu novels
and books of poetry in the 1950s and
wrote plays performed on Radio Pakistan.

6. British Career
• He worked as an arts teacher at Ounsdale
High School between 1962 and 1979 and
at Weston Road High School as head of
art and design between 1979 and 1985.

7. His Roots series started in the 1970s and showed
imaginary plants and roots derived from
Arabic script below while his silkscreen. The
Page from 1984 showed Arabic letters in
illegible patterns.

8. Pakistani Artist And Writer
• In 1947, he opened the Shemza Commercial
Art Studio in Lahore and adopted the name
Anwar Jalal Shemza.
• He quickly became a leading figure in
Pakistan's cultural life. Shemza was the editor
of Ehsas, a magazine on art and architecture.

9. Shemza was a leading member of a
modernist group called the Lahore Art
Circle. His early works showed a distinct
geometric structure

10. Syed Sadequain Ahmed Naqvi
• Sadequain was born in 1930 in a family
of calligraphers at Amorha in British
India. Sadequain started his artistic career
in 1940, when he joined the Progressive
Writers and Artists Movement.

11. Syed Sadequain Ahmed Naqvi
Sadequain was a deep thinker and
philosopher.. He was invited by the Indian
government in the 1980’s and during this tour
of India, the murals of Sadequain were affixed
at Aligarh, Banaras, Hyderabad and Delhi.

12. Syed Sadequain Ahmed Naqvi
• In 1954, the first solo exhibition of
the work of Sadequain was organized
in Quetta, Pakistan. His work was
much appreciated and soon he earned
his name for the Mural artwork.

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