Expressions of peace: Young artists depict perceptions of violence and harmony
The exhibition features the best 50 pieces out of 350 submissions.
Hajra Amir’s piece won first prize in the senior category. PHOTO: ABID NAWAZ/EXPRESS
LAHORE:
Scores of students gathered at Al-Hamra on The Mall on Friday to showcase their artwork at the Art for Peace exhibition.
Peace and interfaith harmony were the main themes of the exhibition organised by The Media Foundation and Umeed Jawan.
There were more than 200 submissions from school students and 150 by college students.
A painting by Rehan Sherazi, a student of grade three from The Lahore Lyceum, showed a do-not-enter sign painted over a man brandishing a gun.
Beenish Shaukat, a student of grade seven from Roshni Model High School, had painted a dove flying away with a gun and with two other doves carrying a flag with the peace sign painted on it.
The first prize in the junior category went to Alisha Munir, a student of grade five from City School. She had painted a landscape with mountains and a river, with various people calling for peace.
“There is so much happening in the country and children are receptive to conversations between adults,” Azmat Abbas, CEO of The Media Foundation.
He said the idea of holding the exhibition was to encourage students to understand their perceptions of violence around them and help them explore and express their views through art. He said art supplies were given to school students for free.
There were 150 submissions in the senior category.
Hajra Amir of Kinnaird College, who won the first prize in this category, had painted red figures with shades of orange. The figures were sitting in a field holding hands and carrying hearts.
Zainab Khalid of Home Economics College showed a boy, his face coloured with flags of various countries, holding an open book which showed plants and animals.
Basira Mehmood of University of the Punjab, though, showed the impact of violence in her painting which had a red lotus pond with white flowers. On the edges of the canvas, she had placed newspaper clippings of pictures of the victims killed in the December 16 attack on Army Public School in Peshawar and pictures of men and women grieving.
The exhibition showcased the work of 50 students. Prizes were distributed among the top position-holders. Those in the senior categories were awarded laptops and tablets and winners in the junior categories were given cash vouchers. The exhibition will continue till March 23.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 21st, 2015.
Scores of students gathered at Al-Hamra on The Mall on Friday to showcase their artwork at the Art for Peace exhibition.
Peace and interfaith harmony were the main themes of the exhibition organised by The Media Foundation and Umeed Jawan.
There were more than 200 submissions from school students and 150 by college students.
A painting by Rehan Sherazi, a student of grade three from The Lahore Lyceum, showed a do-not-enter sign painted over a man brandishing a gun.
Beenish Shaukat, a student of grade seven from Roshni Model High School, had painted a dove flying away with a gun and with two other doves carrying a flag with the peace sign painted on it.
The first prize in the junior category went to Alisha Munir, a student of grade five from City School. She had painted a landscape with mountains and a river, with various people calling for peace.
“There is so much happening in the country and children are receptive to conversations between adults,” Azmat Abbas, CEO of The Media Foundation.
He said the idea of holding the exhibition was to encourage students to understand their perceptions of violence around them and help them explore and express their views through art. He said art supplies were given to school students for free.
There were 150 submissions in the senior category.
Hajra Amir of Kinnaird College, who won the first prize in this category, had painted red figures with shades of orange. The figures were sitting in a field holding hands and carrying hearts.
Zainab Khalid of Home Economics College showed a boy, his face coloured with flags of various countries, holding an open book which showed plants and animals.
Basira Mehmood of University of the Punjab, though, showed the impact of violence in her painting which had a red lotus pond with white flowers. On the edges of the canvas, she had placed newspaper clippings of pictures of the victims killed in the December 16 attack on Army Public School in Peshawar and pictures of men and women grieving.
The exhibition showcased the work of 50 students. Prizes were distributed among the top position-holders. Those in the senior categories were awarded laptops and tablets and winners in the junior categories were given cash vouchers. The exhibition will continue till March 23.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 21st, 2015.