Akhlaq

"Today's younger art practitioners and students are barely familiar with Akhlaq, and even the students at the Indus Valley School of Art, whose logo was designed by Akhlaq, have little idea of who the brand creator was!"

Bloggers.Pakistan 2009

At his tenth anniversary, on a frosty January evening, Sheherzade with Akhlaq's friends, lights candles and lamps at her neo-mystical home on Lahore's serene Scotch Corner, and resolves that the year 2009 will be the start of rediscovering Zahoor ul Akhlaq.

Bloggers.Pakistan 2009

In 1989, Akhlaq joined Yale University, USA, to pursue post-doctoral research at its Institute of Sacred Music, Religion and the Arts. After retiring from NCA as the head of the Fine Arts Department in 1991, Akhlaq proceeded to Bilkent University, Ankara, as a visiting professor, and by the mid nineties, the family had landed in Canada.

Bloggers.Pakistan 2009

The innate humanism of Akhlaq and his family was shattered to bits, much like the splintered state of Pakistan, where art and life are either marginalised, silenced or blown to pieces.

Bloggers.Pakistan 2009

The NCA art gallery was named after Akhlaq and this was one of the last things that Salima Hashmi accomplished at the end of her tenure as Principal.

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Akhlaq was a man of few words, another trait he might have inherited from Shakir Ali.

Bloggers.Pakistan 2009

Akhlaq could concurrently weave the discipline of Islamic geometry, the iconography of the Mughal manuscript, the well-worn genres of European painting and Pakistan's colonial heritage all into one space, and yet there was space left over to express the contemporary artist of today.

Bloggers.Pakistan 2009

Zahoor ul Akhlaq: "the most significant influence on contemporary art"

Bloggers.Pakistan 2009

The noise, alarming Akhlaq and his fellow artist Anwar Saeed, sent them rushing in to see what had happened.

Bloggers.Pakistan 2009

A relationship with art can only be established through "intimate interaction with the canvas", and the blank spaces of art galleries, including the National Art Gallery in Islamabad testify to the way many forces have rendered Akhlaq invisible.

Bloggers.Pakistan 2009