Zarina Hashmi’s 86th Birthday Google Doodle Today: If you had opened Google this morning, you would have seen a very cute doodle on it. After seeing the doodle, you must be curious as to what it actually is. If this curiosity has entered your mind too, then Google is celebrating Zarina Hashmi’s 86th birthday on its platform today. Zarina was born on this day in 1937 in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh. Let us tell you that Zarina was quite famous for her minimalist style of celebrities. Before partition, she and her four siblings lived in India, but after partition in 1947, Zarina was forced to move with her family to Karachi, Pakistan.
Married at 21
Zarina Hashmi got married to a young diplomat when she was just 21 years old. After marriage, he went on a world tour. Czarina visited Bangkok, Paris and Japan during her travels. It was here that he exposed trends in printmaking and modernist and abstract art.
Participated in the feminist movement
Zarina moved to New York City in 1977. Here she became a strong supporter of women artists. He soon became a member of the Heresies Collective. If you don’t know, let us tell you that it was a feminist magazine and it examined the relationship between politics, art and social justice. Later, Zarina became a professor at the New York Feminist Art Institute. After becoming a professor, she gave women artists equal opportunities to study. In 1980, he joined AIR. I cooperated with the exhibition. The gallery was titled, ‘Dialectics of Alienation: An Exhibition of Third World Women Artists from the United States’. This exhibition showcases the works of various artists and women artists are also given a very prominent place in it.
Long list of achievements
Looking at Zarina Hashmi’s list of achievements, it is very long. In 1980, she was made a board member of the New York Feminist Art Institute. After becoming a board member, she began her career as a feminist artist journalist. He has worked in this department for a long time. Zarina died on 25 July 2020 in London due to Alzheimer’s disease.
