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Being a hub of culture and heritage, it’s natural for the arts to have flourished within Pakistan. The art and architecture of Pakistan is a wonderful mélange of old and new, traditional and modern – from the ancient mughal styles and expressions to post modern lines and styles displayed across all sorts of artistic mediums including, painting, sculpture, textiles, jewelry, pottery and architectural designs.

Painters

Abdur Rahman Chughtai

Abdur Rahman Chughtai (1899–1975) was a painter from Pakistan who was best known for his Chughtai Style of Art, as well has his designs of stamps. He was awarded the Hilal-i-Imtiaz in 1960, and the President of West Germany awarded him a Gold Medal in 1964 for his accomplishments.

Abdur Rahman Chughtai

Abdur Rahman Chughtai "Painting "

Sadequain

Syed Sadequain Ahmed Naqvi Tamgha-e-Imtiaz, Pride of Performance, Sitara-e-Imtiaz, also often referred to as Sadequain Naqqash, was a world-renowned Pakistani artist, best known for his skills as a calligrapher and a painter. He is considered as one of the finest painters and calligraphers Pakistan has ever produced.

Sadequain

Sadequain "Painting"

Sadequaini "Painting"

Ismail Gulgee

Ismail Gulgee Pride of Performance, Sitara-e-Imtiaz (twice), Hilal-e-Imtiaz, was an award-winning, globally famous Pakistani artist born in Peshawar. He was a qualified engineer in the U.S. and self-taught abstract painter and portrait painter. From about 1960 on, he was noted as an abstract painter influenced by the tradition of Islamic calligraphy and by the American "action painting" idiom.

Ismail Gulgee

Ismail Gulgee "Painting"

Shakir Ali

Shakir Ali was a Pakistani artist and teacher. He was principal of the National College of Arts in Lahore. Widely known to have inspired Cubism among the artists of Lahore, he had a huge following of artists in Pakistan, most of whom were his students.

Shakir Ali

Sadequaini "Painting"

Shahzia Sikander

Shahzia Sikander is a Pakistan-born American artist who specializes in India and Persian miniature painting. She has also created murals, installations, mixed-media works and performance art. She is a 2006 recipient of the MacArthur Fellows Program "genius grant". A Muslim from Pakistan working and living in America, Sikander has explored stereotypes of Eastern and Pakistani women.

Shahzia Sikander

Shahzia Sikander "Painting"

Writers

Faiz Ahmad Faiz

Faiz Ahmad Faiz was a Pakistani intellectual, poet, and one of the most famous poets of the Urdu language Faiz was the first Asian poet to receive the Lenin Peace Prize, awarded by the Soviet Union in 1963. He was also nominated for the Nobel Prize shortly before his death in 1984 .

Faiz Ahmad Faiz

Bapsi Sidhwa

Bapsi Sidhwa is an author of Pakistani origin who writes in English. Sidhwa wrote both the 1991 novel Ice Candy Man which is the basis for Mehta's 1998 film Earth as well as the 2006 novelWater: A Novel which is based upon Mehta's 2005 film, Water.

Bapsi Sidhwa

Bapsi Sidhwa "Writers"

Saadat Hassan Manto

Saadat Hassan Manto as a short story writer of Kashmiri heritage. He is best known for his short stories, 'Bu', 'Khol Do' 'Thanda Gosht' and his magnum opus, 'Toba Tek Singh'.

Saadat Hassan Manto

Saadat Hassan Manto "Writer"

Ashfaq Ahmed

Ashfaq Ahmed was a distinguished writer, playwright, broadcaster, intellectual and spiritualist from Pakistan. His prime qualities of heart and hand earned appreciations across the borders. He was regarded by many as the best Urdu Afsana writer.

Ashfaq Ahmed

Ashfaq Ahmed "Writer"

Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi

Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi is an outstanding Urdu satirical and humorwriter from Pakistan regarded by many as best Urdu Humorist. Yousufi has also served as the head of several national and international governmental and financial institutions. He received Sitara-e-Imtiaz and Hilal-i-Imtiaz, the highest literary honors by Government of Pakistanin 1999.

Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi

Sadequaini "Painting"

Poets

Muhammad Iqbal

Muhammad Iqbal was a Muslim poet and philosopher born in Sialkot, British India (now in Pakistan), whose poetry in Urdu and Persian is considered to be among the greatest of the modern era. He is commonly referred to as Allama Iqbal.

Muhammad Iqbal

Muhammad Iqbal "Poets"

Parveen Shakir

Parveen Shakir was an Urdu poet, teacher and a civil servant of the Government of Pakistan.

Parveen Shakir

Parveen Shakir "Poets"

Ahmed Faraz

Ahmed Faraz was a Pakistani urdu poet. He was considered one of the greatest modern Urdu poets of the last century. Faraz is his pseudonym 'takhallus', whereas his real name is Syed Ahmad Shah Ahmed Faraz died in Islamabad on August 25, 2008.

Ahmed Faraz

Ahmed Faraz "Poets"

Amjad Islam Amjad

Amjad Islam Amjad is a famous Urdu poet, drama writer and lyricist from Pakistan. He has written many columns, translation, criticism and essays whereas his main focus is writing Nazms.

Amjad Islam Amjad

Amjad Islam Amjad "Poets"

Rickshaw and truck Art

Rickshaw Art

Rickshaw art or truck art is a form of neo-romanticism emerging in the Pakistan.The art in question consists of oil paintings on the rear of the canvas roof of rickshaws, done by local street artists, who also paint the various landscape, portraits and personal statements of the driver.

Rickshaw Art

Truck Art

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