Staff report Daily Times
ISLAMABAD: Samreen Asif exhibited her cache of 21 miniature paintings titled ‘Flight of Imagination’ here at COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT) on Tuesday.
Renowned artist and writer Fauzia Minallah was the chief guest on the occasion. The Rector, CIIT, SM Junaid Zaidi, and Farrah M Adnan, Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture and Design was also present on the occasion.
Focusing on Mughal styled miniatures, Samreen captures different forms of female. In few of her paintings, she uses the brush to highlight discriminations against women. “In present circumstances, a Pakistani women cannot be able to get the status she deserves because she is struggling alone,” Samreen said. Samreen has taken some challenging tasks to bless and beautify her work with modern touch, moonlight, white swans with dramatic moods and lotus pools with lovers create a great feeling for the viewers.
She said, “My subject matter presents my grandeur of thought depicting women with eternal hope of freedom and liberty replete with dramatic colors and romantic atmosphere.”
The exhibition depicts her dominance over the traditional techniques, steady hand on finer details and influence of various miniature painting traditions such as Chinese and Persian. The exhibition will remain open until 17th June
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