A. H. Rizvi

  Landscape painting has a significance place in the art of Pakistan. This painting style, being closely associated with Mother Nature, attracted all kind viewers as well as the artists to pay special attention to the surrounding and atmosphere they have been living in. Especially the fertile soil of Punjab; clad in the vast green vegetation and serene blues of its five rivers, has always been a lavish visual experience for the artists. In South Asia, as early as the miniature tradition of the Gujarat, the basic patterns of landscape painting were emerging as the backdrop of the illustrations depicting the sacred religious scriptures. Later, it evolved through the Mughal Miniatures in stylized foliage whereas the realistic style of the Company Painting, established proper status of this genre by capturing the local subjects in the Western medium of oil and watercolours.