Bashir Mirza

Bashir Mirza (BM)
Portrait of Bashir Mirza by Muhammad Arshad Khan, also known as "MAK"
Born1941[1][2]
Amritsar, British India
Died19 January 2000[1][2]
Karachi, Pakistan
NationalityPakistani
Occupation(s)Painter, artist
Years active1965 – 1999
AwardsPride of Performance Award (1994)

Bashir Mirza (1941 – 19 January 2000), also known as BM, was a Pakistani painter artist.[1]

Early life and education

Born in Amritsar, British India in 1941, Mirza joined the Mayo School of Arts (now National College of Arts (NCA), Lahore, where he was one of Shakir Ali's favorite students of art. Shakir Ali was the principal at the National College of Arts in Lahore at that time.[1][2] Bashir graduated in 1962 from the department of design and was amongst the first batch of graduates of the renamed school.[3]

Career

He never stayed for long with one theme or style, fluctuating between realistic, abstract and non-objective styles. Mirza looked out for new ventures of earning a living. He opened up an art gallery (the first ever in Karachi) at Kutchery Road in 1965 but in 1969 left town to go abroad. He also published an Art Journal called Artistic Pakistan but in 1968 sold it off. Marjorie Husain, an art critic and writer of Bashir Mirza's biography, 'The Last of the Bohemians- Bashir Mirza' (2006) called the artist "innovative and brilliant who emerged as one of the best among his generation of the painters of the 1960s." According to her, Bashir was outspoken, fearless but had great respect for the talent of his peers.[2]

He exhibited his controversial "Lonely Girl" painting series in 1971.[2]

The "Lonely Girl" painting series was shown and gifted to the Seoul Olympic Art Museum when he was invited by the Seoul Olympic Committee. His exhibition "DAWN OF DEMOCRACY" was inaugurated by Begum Nusrat Bhutto and sporadic highs and lows followed in his career. In 1994, Mirza departed for Australia as Pakistan's cultural attaché. But he soon got tired of the diplomatic life and returned to Pakistan in 1996. By then he was also sick. On his return, he opened up an art gallery and an advertising agency in Karachi. There were subsequent lukewarm exhibitions, the latest being at Chawkandi in August 1999 just months before his death on 19 January 2000.[2]

Stamp design

Mirza designed two stamps of the 1963 stamp series "Freedom from Hunger" for the Pakistan Postal Services.[3]

Postage stamp

On 14 August 2006, Pakistan Post office issued a Rs. 40 sheetlet of stamps to posthumously honour 10 Pakistani Painters. Besides Bashir Mirza, the other 9 painters are: Laila Shahzada, Zubeida Agha, Sadequain, Ali Imam (painter artist), Shakir Ali, Anna Molka Ahmed, Zahoor ul Akhlaq, Ahmed Pervez and Askari Mian Irani.[4]

Awards

Further reading

  • Husain, Marjorie. Bashir Mirza: The Last of the Bohemians (a biography of Bashir Mirza). Karachi: Post Office Foundation Press, 2006.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Painters of Pakistan: Latest stamp series Business Recorder (newspaper), Published 26 August 2006, Retrieved 7 October 2020
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Bashir Mirza's profile and Pride of Performance award info listed on Dawn (newspaper) Published 20 January 2007, Retrieved 7 October 2020
  3. ^ a b c NCA and Stamp Design, Exhibition Souvenir, Lahore 2000, p. 6
  4. ^ "Profile of Bashir Mirza including info on his commemorative postage stamps". lailashahzada.com website. 21 January 2008. Archived from the original on 21 January 2008. Retrieved 7 October 2020.
  5. ^ ART FACTS: A new beginning and inspiring ideas Business Recorder (newspaper), Published 31 May 2014, Retrieved 7 October 2020

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