"Untitled (Hasrat Stare), 1960" is a well-known painting by the Pakistani artist Abdur Rahman Chughtai. His style was characterized by a reduction of forms into luminous planes of color, simple compositions, and delicate draftsmanship.
Chughtai was a Pakistani painter, noted for his work inspired by a variety of sources that included traditional miniature, Mughal, Art Nouveau, Orientalist, and Islamic styles of painting. Chughtai's best-known paintings are his portraits, featuring their subjects existing in a flattened pictorial space painted in rich golds and pastels, and populated by metaphorical signifiers.
