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Pakistani youth in Cobweb
Sadequain was deeply interested in the issues that have challenged the human mind – the questions about the mysteries of the universe, meaning of life on our planet and beyond, role of human beings in the universe, freedom and self determination, survival and progress and the fine line between reason and emotion.
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Greedy Ladies and Crows
Sadequain’s exhibition at the Arts Council, Karachi in August 1965 encapsulated his horror. The paintings showed scarecrows, cobwebs, crows, covetous ladies and headless men. Sadequain was at his most grotesque and, arguably, most proletarian. He saw cobwebs all over society; saw them around young men and modern ladies, around lovers and paramours, constraining thinkers and intellectuals, in the mouths of men and women who dare not speak. The pervasiveness of cobwebs reached such nightmarish proportions that people — intelligent and cultured people — began decorating their homes with them.
Sadequain died in 1987
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Gleaning from the Blogs
Nigar says she resorted to self-censor. Pakistan's first female professional cartoonist, Nigar Nazar, admits that she sometimes has to self-censor: "In a way there's a lot of freedom of speech in Pakistan but it's only limited to certain topics that don't address some of the more real issues that affect people.NATO containers are still in the headlines but Pakistan's Art is on the Move!
