I Discovered an Artist today I'd never Heard of

and I was just struck by the power and beauty of his works.

 An interview with the painter, and some other links: here, here, here, & here.

Kerry James Marshall.

Iqbal Hussain, Voice in the Wilderness

Iqbal Hussain, Pakistan’s most infamous artist, grew up in the Heera Mandi, Lahore’s red light district, among the “dancing girls” who are now his models.

[H]e calls himself a "voice in the wilderness," who brings attention to the squalid conditions of an ignored segment of Pakistani society.

“I’m trying to bring this in front of people,” Hussain said. Heera Mandi’s prostitutes “deserve to be respected," he says. "Their children need to be educated. They need health care.” 

- Joel Elliott and Jodi Hilton.

Because of his choice of female models, Iqbal Hussain like Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) is called a "painter of prostitutes and dancing girls."

-  Pervaiz Munir Alvi.

Iqbal Hussain is an artist who has opened the shutters of the world he lives in to a reluctant ‘other.’ Since his first controversial solo exhibition in the ’80s, his bold disclosures have been lauded universally and shown around the world through teams of documentary filmmakers. He is a prolific painter whose studio is always open to his troubled community who tend to get together after their working hours and chat. ...

Included in the display were allegorical paintings; groups of women uniformly dressed and held at gunpoint. The artist creates powerful, dark, dramatic scenes, as well as the lighter images confronting the observer with the humanity of his subjects. One discovers sadness as well as moments of cheer, the love between mother and child and trust between friends. Once the mask of the profession is removed, one recognises the vulnerability of people born into a way of life from which there is little chance of escape. ...

- Poignantworks: The world of Iqbal Hussain,

Marjorie Husain.

Check Out The BEAUTIFUL ARTWORK At THIS BLOG . . .

Being Boris Artist

Boris Andreev

PERCEPTION

I've posted on John Bramblitt before, 

but he and his work are so amazing.

“If the doors of perception were cleansed 

every thing would appear to man as it is, 

infinite. 

For man has closed himself up, 

till he sees all things thro' narow chinks of his cavern.”

– Blake

WOW. JUST WOW.

 

Kyle Lambert does his work on the iPad, with one finger. He definately has more talent in that finger than I have in my whole body.

Please enjoy.

Audry Hepburn

Rihanna

































See other pictures
here --> Kyle Lambert Portfolio.

What Do Women Want?

by Kim Addonizio
  




I want a red dress.
I want it flimsy and cheap,
I want it too tight, I want to wear it
until someone tears it off me.
I want it sleeveless and backless,
this dress, so no one has to guess
what's underneath. I want to walk down
the street past Thrifty's and the hardware store
with all those keys glittering in the window,
past Mr. and Mrs. Wong selling day-old
donuts in their café, past the Guerra brothers
slinging pigs from the truck and onto the dolly,
hoisting the slick snouts over their shoulders.
I want to walk like I'm the only
woman on earth and I can have my pick.
I want that red dress bad.
I want it to confirm
your worst fears about me,
to show you how little I care about you
or anything except what
I want. When I find it, I'll pull that garment
from its hanger like I'm choosing a body
to carry me into this world, through
the birth-cries and the love-cries too,
and I'll wear it like bones, like skin,
it'll be the goddamned
dress they bury me in.

from: Tell Me. Copyright © 2000

Amazon's Kim Addonizio page.
(Painting by LIAT) 

THIS IS A SITE YOU ABSOLUTELY MUST VISIT!

BRAMBLITT
contemporary gallery

- Riley

John Bramblitt is a blind painter who didn't start painting until he lost his sight.

Psychology Today