KC Gems: The History of Pakistani Miniature Paintings presented by Marcella Sirhandi
Tuesday Afternoon, September 30 – 1:30 to 3:30 pm
4747 Troost (direct entrance off of Forest Ave.) Room 22B
This class is in a HYBRID format – participate in-person or on Zoom
Due to British Colonial dismantling of Hindu kingship and royal Mughal rule—both sponsors of art and culture–Indian miniature painting was doomed to extinction by the end of the nineteenth-century.
Art historian, Professor Emerita Marcella Sirhandi will trace the journey of Pakistani painter, Bashir Ahmad, who mastered the techniques of Indian and Persian miniature painting in an eight-year traditional apprenticeship and transformed these dying art forms into a contemporary idiom.
Graduates of the program Ahmad created at the National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan, sparked an international movement. Recent works by world- renown artist Shahzia Sikander and other Bashir students will be examined in this presentation.
Dr. Marcella Sirhandi holds a PhD in South Asian Art History from Ohio State University and the title of Professor Emerita at Oklahoma State University
