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| | Social Pages - Art: Artists from Lahore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | Punjab University is one of Pakistan's foremost bastions of academic art and Ali Azmat's oeuvre manifests all the trappings of Punjab University's traditional stance. |
 | | A vocabulary of long looming shadows, cracked walls, empty frames, torn or ripped canvases, checkerboard patterns, thorny cactus, leafy trees, blooms of floral patterns, hard, metallic nails or fragile eggshells are his supporting cast of symbolic references that are closely tied in with the main concept or theme of this painting. |
 | | Even beyond the figure, Ali Azmat continues to exploit the dazzle of light and shade on large draped, curtain like expanses in the background to offset his models. |
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