Ghulam Rasul

Artist Information

Lifespan

1942 - 2009

Birth Place

Jalandhar

Category

Pioneers

Ghulam Rasul

Biography

Ghulam Rasul was a leading Pakistani painter and a visionary modern printmaker. Born in Jalandhar in 1942, he migrated to Pakistan after the Partition settling near Okara in Punjab with his family. He completed his matriculation at Islamia College, Lyallpur (present-day Faisalabad), before moving to Lahore to pursue formal art education. At the Fine Arts Department of the University of the Punjab, he studied under distinguished teachers such as Anna Molka Ahmed, Naseem Hafeez Qazi, Khalid Iqbal, and Colin David earning his MA in fine arts in 1964. In 1965, Rasul began his teaching career, and the following year he held his first solo exhibition featuring his now-famous painting Buffaloes in...

Featured Works

Girls Viewing Painting in Art Gallery
When we parted
Intaglio Print
The Girl in Narrow Street of Saidpur
Kachnars Flowering
Kalas Houses, Bumburet
Sri Bahlol, near Mardan
Pigeon
Valley of Bumburet
View of Chitral
Sri Bahlol, near Mardan
Mastard fields
Destiny
Luddi
Three Faces
Experimental Print
Landscape USA
Portrait of a Bengali Girl
Portrait of a Lady
Bodhi Tree and Mustard Fields
Girls Viewing Painting in Art Gallery

Oil on Canvas | 2x3 ft. (60.9x91.4cm) | 1975

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