A group of nine established artists displayed their collection of art pieces Tuesday to raise charity funds for the family of Rahimdad, a famous potter from the Saidpur Village.
Mashkoor Raza, Anjum Ayub, Abrar Ahmed, Zia Zaidi, Riffat Khattak, Arjumand Awan, Rasheed Khan, Saba Hussain and Indian Artist Madhubani exhibited 33 paintings of mixed media works. According to the artists, after many decades of contribution to keep the craft of pottery alive, Rahimdad died in difficult circumstances and that the exhibition was a small effort to make his family comfortable before they could create a source of income.
Mashkoor Raza has displayed the work on figurative abstract.
Creating transparency with parts of basic forms of square, circle, triangle on his canvases, he captures abstracting images of women and horses. He is inspired by the solar eclipse and paints moon and eclipses sun in the paintings.
Anjum Ayub is a print maker, deeply attracted and moved by the concerns of the soul and uses different techniques to create a sanctuary for the soul. Arjumand Awan expresses his creativity through different media and fields like Fine Arts, Decoration and Film making. He depicts various aspects of life including social, political and personal.
Abrar Ahmed is a popular artist from Karachi. He maintains his creative innovation while maintaining his skillful and fine lines, spontaneous details and rich, jewel-like colours. His subject focuses on women adorned with jewellery in an attempt to show dissatisfaction of the soul, despite the wealthy and luxury modern living.
Abrar’s work carries a world within stirring a reflection of
Gandhara images, pictures Indian miniature paintings and Bengal art.
Zia Zaidi’s work is expression of non-physical experience about love and life, believing in inner truth and guidance while Riffat Khattak captures landscapes and views in surroundings with the medium of water colour.
Elderly people need more exercise: Older adults have to exercise more than younger adults in order to maintain their muscle mass.
To examine how much exercise was needed to maintain or increase muscle mass, size and strength in adults aged 20 to 35 years and ages 60 to 75, researchers from Melourn University, Australia assigned all participants three sets of resistance training exercises (leg press, knee extensions and squats) three times a week, BBC health reported.
In the 32-week second phase, participants were divided into three groups: some were assigned to stop resistance training altogether, some were told to reduce training to one day a week, and others were asked to cut down training to one day and one set of resistance exercises a week.