ISLAMABAD: Famous landscape painter Ghulam Rasul died of cardiac arrest at 11:30am on Thursday. He was 67.
He felt chest pain on Tuesday and went to the Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology (AFIC) for a check-up, where he was hospitalised after the doctors found that 80 per cent of his artery was clogged. However, he could not recover and passed away.
He was believed to be keeping good health and often jogged, went around the countryside and open spaces in search of quaint colours to add that extra gush to his painting.
He was well-known for his GR signature embossed on each painting which made him one of the most admired and celebrated landscape painters of the country.
His sudden death has shocked the community of artists and art lovers.
Director General Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA) Tauqir Nasir in a condolence message to GR’s wife, Rubina, expressed his sorrow on the death of the eminent artist and friend of the organisation which he headed till 2002.
He said his death was a national loss. ‘GR was like an art academy in his person and always quick to share his unique painting skill with the next generation for which he also founded Studio-542.’
GR’s colleagues in the PNCA were full of praise for him. The visual arts director Musarrat Naheed Imam said GR’s death was a loss to art.
GR became famous for painting mustard scenes. As a painter he looked inward at his home for inspiration and learnt that from his trip to the United States.
Way back while he was still in Lahore and had not yet become famous as GR, accomplished writer, the late Safdar Mir, predicted that one day Ghulam Rasul would achieve fame in the world of art.
At the Punjab University, GR was trained as a painter under Khalid Iqbal and Prof Anna Molka Ahmad. Later, he worked with Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17, Paris.
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