{"id":3433,"date":"2013-01-03T01:00:32","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T06:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=3433"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:30:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:30:06","slug":"murad-khan-mumtaz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/03\/murad-khan-mumtaz\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist: Murad Khan Mumtaz"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pakistani artist Murad Khan Mumtaz<\/a> uses his training in the art of Indian miniature painting to create these beautiful scenes depicting bits of traditional culture as they fade away in our contemporary materialistic landscape. Keeping with traditional practices, Murad paints on a canvas of wasli paper, which is prepared by glueing sheets together with flour paste and then burnished with either a smooth glass ball or sea shell. Burnishing crushes any grain leaving a shiny, smooth finish.<\/p>\n

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Pakistani artist Murad Khan Mumtaz uses his training in the art of Indian miniature painting to create these beautiful scenes depicting bits of traditional culture as they fade away in our contemporary materialistic landscape. Keeping with traditional practices, Murad paints on a canvas of wasli paper, which is prepared by glueing sheets together with flour […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,70],"tags":[37,125,568,1868,569],"class_list":["post-3433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist","category-painting","tag-art","tag-artist-2","tag-murad-khan-mumtaz","tag-painting","tag-wasli-paper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-Tn","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3858,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/20\/around-town-illuminated-geographies-at-tufts-tisch-gallery\/","url_meta":{"origin":3433,"position":0},"title":"Around Town: Illuminated Geographies at Tufts’ Tisch Gallery","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"January 20, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"An opening reception will take place on January 24th from 5:30 - 8:00 pm for the exhibition Illuminated Geographies\u00a0at the Tisch Gallery inside Tufts University.\u00a0Illuminated Geographies explores the evolution of Pakistani miniaturist painting through four contemporary artists. 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