Zubeida Agha [ Urdu

Urdu

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: زبىده آغا ] was the first Pakistani modern artist. After the creation of Pakistan

Pakistan

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 in 1947, she was the first artist to have an exhibition of her paintings. She helped bring the modern idiom to Pakistan.

Career

Zubeida Agha is recognized and lauded as a premiere painter of Pakistan. In the changing ethos of thirties and the forties, she had the courage and determination to launch a modern idiom of painting, which first baffled and later overwhelmed art critics and viewers...She is one of the great colorists in Pakistani painting. She employs colour not only for itself, but to lend veracity and meaning to her images, culled from life and restructured by her amazing imagination to provoke the viewer into thought.

Postage stamp

On 14 August 2006, Pakistan Post

Pakistan Post

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 issued a Rs. 40 sheetlet of stamps to posthumously honour 10 Pakistani painters. Besides Zubeida Agha, the other nine painters were: Laila Shahzada

Laila Shahzada

Laila Shahzada is one of Pakistan's most internationally renowned artists. She was of the first women painters in Pakistan to gain international recognition, with exhibitions around the world including Pakistan, London, Paris, Tokyo, Monte Carlo and New York.-Honours:She was awarded the...

, Askari Mian Irani

Askari Mian Irani

-Early life and education:Irani received a diploma in design from the National College of Arts , Lahore in 1967.-Stamp design:Irani designed two stamps of the Third Organisation of the Islamic Conference issue....

, Sadequain

Sadequain

Syed Sadequain Ahmed Naqvi , Tamgha-e-Imtiaz, Pride of Performance, Sitara-e-Imtiaz, also often referred to as Sadequain Naqqash, was a world-renowned Pakistani artist, best known for his skills as a calligrapher and a painter...

, Ali Imam

Ali Imam

-Works:Immam has written more than 200 books, translated nearly 40. Child psychology, humanism and adventure is found in his writing. A simple style is available. Adventures, science fictions, stories related with historic events are the categories....

, Shakir Ali

Shakir Ali

Shakir Ali [ Urdu: شاکر على Shakir Ali [ Urdu: شاکر على Shakir Ali [ Urdu: شاکر على (1914–1975] was an influential modern Pakistani artist and art teacher. He was the principal of the National College of Arts in Lahore. He joined Mayo School of Art as Lecturer in Art in 1954 and after the...

, Anna Molka Ahmed

Anna Molka Ahmed

Anna Molka Ahmed was a famous Pakistani artist and pioneer of fine arts in the country after its independence in 1947. She was a professor of fine arts at the University of the Punjab in Lahore.-Background:...

, Zahoor ul Akhlaq

Zahoor ul Akhlaq

Zahoor ul Akhlaq was a pioneering artist from Pakistan. He is known for his approach to painting, sculpture, design and architecture, as well as his teaching at the NCA in Lahore....

, Ahmed Pervez

Ahmed Pervez

Ahmed Parvez [ Urdu: احمد پروىز was a Pakistani modernist painter whose work was marked with energy. He was member of The Lahore Group in Pakistan and founder member of the Pakistan Group in London....

 and Bashir Mirza

Bashir Mirza

Bashir Mirza PP, was a Pakistani painter.-Early life:Born in Amristar in 1941, a Tonga makers son, B.M. manage to climb the ladder to fame.-Education:...

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External links

• Ten Great Painters Stamps by Pakistan Post
• Daily Times (Pakistan) article
• Posthumous tribute to Ten Great Painters by Pakistan Post
• http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/zubeida-agha-–-pioneer-of-non-traditional-pictorial-imagery/