Great Artist Ismaiel - Gulgee

• A Great Artist Amin-Ismaiel -Gulgee  Pakistani artist born in Peshawar on   25th  October  1926 and breath his last in  Karachi on 16th  December 2007.Gulgee done his civil engineering from Aligarh University and after it he went to  USA  for  higher  education their he takes his training in engineering and while taking training he also starts his GOD  gifted art . YES for sure I'm talking about painting  Gulgee  was a  skilled naturalistic portrait painter His first exhibition  was in  1950 Gulgee was perhaps famous and made his name in abstract work and in  calligraphy  specially in Islamic art and calligraphy he also done action painting  

  According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (see external links): "Gulgee's calligraphy paintings are abstract and gestural interpretations of Arabic and Urdu letters. His sweeping layers of paint explore the formal qualities of oil paint while they make references to Islamic design elements."
His paintings were bright and full of color, but the paint was put on with great sensitivity, and paintings vibrate with intense feeling. Areas sing with luminous, thin color; thick blobs of paint pulsate with fiberglass tears, the brush swirls strong and free. The total effect used to be very free, yet considered and well thought out. They work enormously well, because it was all orchestrated with great care and concentration.
Beginning in the 1960s (if not earlier), Gulgee also created sculptures, including bronze pieces that were (like so many of his paintings) calligraphic in form and inspiration, and sometimes specifically based on verses from the Quran [source:artnet.com].\


AWARDS.


GULGEE  WAS BLESSED WITH MANY GREAT AND RESPECTABLE AWARDS WHICH ARE AS FOLLOWS

1. PRIDE OF PERFORMANCE .
2. SITARA- E - IMTIAZ . (TWICE)
3. HILAL-E-IMTIAZ.

OPERSONAL LIFE AND EXHIBITIONS .




Guljee's exhibitions have mostly been available to few people. Keeping that in mind and high demand from public and lovers of his works, an art gallery for Guljee has been built in Clifton, Karachi near South City Hospital and Sea View Karachi. Guljee mostly painted for his own inspirations and vision. Although selected paintings are available for sale in Guljee art gallery. Guljee was last based in Boat Basin in Karachi. He has a son Amin Guljee. Ismail Guljee belongs to Shia Ismaili Agha Khani sect of Islam. Before 1959, as portraitist, he painted the entire Afghan Royal Family. From about 1960 on, he was noted as an abstract painter influenced by the tradition of Islamic calligraphy and by the American "action painting" idiom.


International and special assignments.


Guljee, as he was famously known, received many requests for his paintings internationally, from the Saudi royal family to the Islamabad presidency. Many of his works are placed in the "Faisal Mosque" in Islamabad. Guljee received many awards, including in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Japan and France.