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was teaching art there as a professor back then. Shakir Ali encouraged him greatly in his art studies. Zahoor graduated from this college in 1962 and he then started teaching at the same college in the Fine Arts
Department. Shakir Ali heavily influenced him to learn the Cubist style and other modern
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Akhlaq's painting invoked a dialogue between modernist abstraction and many traditional forms and practices found within South Asia (including Mughal
Miniature painting, calligraphy and vernacular architecture). At a time when his contemporaries in South Asia were developing their work within a
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Akhlaq's influences are from a vast range of sources, which include painting, literature, philosophy, Sufism, dance, and music. His teaching and practice is considered to have had a significant impact on a generation of
Contemporary Pakistani art and artists. Zahoor ul Akhlaq is best known for
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modernist tradition, or had primitivist leanings, he eschewed both schools by merging his interest in abstractions with traditional and vernacular practices. Although he evaded the label of an abstract artist, his work mostly fits this definition.
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1963–91 Lecturer in Art, then
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home on 18 January 1999, by a visiting acquaintance, Shahzad Butt, a roti merchant of the city. The killer could give no reason for having turned his gun on them.
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pioneering the contemporary miniature painting in Pakistan.
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