Google Doodle pays tribute to Indian-American artist and printmaker Zarina Hashmi on her 86th birthday. The doodle is illustrated by New York-based guest artist Tara Anand.
Google Doodle celebrates the 86th birthday of Indian-American artist and printmaker Zarina Hashmi. She is widely recognised as one of the most significant artists associated with the minimalist movement.
This doodle is illustrated by New York based guest artist Tara Anand. The artwork captures Hashmi’s use of minimalist abstract and geometric shapes to explore concepts of home, displacement, borders, and memory.
Zarina Hashmi Life Story
Zarina Hashmi was born on July 16, 1937 in a small Indian town Aligarh. Alongwith her four siblings, she lived an idyllic life until the partition of India in 1947. This tragic event displaced millions of people. Hashmi and her family was forced to flee to Karachi in the newly formed Pakistan.
At the age of 21, Zarina Hashmi married a young foreign service diplomat and started travelling the world. She spent time in Bangkok, Paris and Japan, where she became immersed in printmaking and art movements like modernism and abstraction.
In 1977, she moved to New York City and became a strong advocate for women and artists of colours. She soon joined the Heresies Collective, a feminist publication that explored the intersection of art, politics, and social justice.
Zarina Hashmi went on to teach at the New York Feminist Art Institute, which provided equal education opportunities for female artists. In 1980, she co-curated the exhibition at A.I.R. Gallery called “Dialectics of Isolation: An Exhibition of Third World Women Artists of the United States.” This groundbreaking exhibition showcased work from diverse artists and provided a space for female artists of color.
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A part of the Minimalism Art movement, Hashmi became internationally known for her striking woodcuts and intaglio prints that combine semi-abstract images of houses and cities where she had lived. Her work often contained inscriptions in her native Urdu, and geometric elements inspired by the Islamic art.
People all over the world continue to contemplate Hashmi’s art in permanent collections at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among other distinguished galleries.
“Happy Birthday, Zarina!,” Google wrote in a blog.
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