Abdul Rahman Chughtai - Artist
Born in 1899, A R Chughtai comes from a family of architects, engineers, painters and decorators. His main work was produced before Pakistan was created in the Persian and Mongol Traditional Style. Chughtai admitted himself to Lahore's Mayo School of Art, and subsequently moved to Calcutta and worked there for several years, painting in Bengal School Style. By 1923, when he was only 24, he started developing his style of drawing luscious, languid, narcissus-eyes and stylized figures with erotic overtones and heavy with fictional contents.
In 1927, Chughtai published Muraqqa, his first major work, which comprised a series of illustrations he made for new edition of the thought-heavy and highly imaginative verses of Ghalib, 19th century " poet's poet" of Urdu and Persian. In the thirties Chughtai visited Europe, researching on painting.
Abdul Rahman Chughtai - Artist
Born in 1899, A R Chughtai comes from a family of architects, engineers, painters and decorators. His main work was produced before Pakistan was created in the Persian and Mongol Traditional Style. Chughtai admitted himself to Lahore's Mayo School of Art, and subsequently moved to Calcutta and worked there for several years, painting in Bengal School Style. By 1923, when he was only 24, he started developing his style of drawing luscious, languid, narcissus-eyes and stylized figures with erotic overtones and heavy with fictional contents.
In 1927, Chughtai published Muraqqa, his first major work, which comprised a series of illustrations he made for new edition of the thought-heavy and highly imaginative verses of Ghalib, 19th century " poet's poet" of Urdu and Persian. In the thirties Chughtai visited Europe, researching on painting.