Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. and Zubeida Agha

Zubeida Agha (1922-1997)Zubeida Agha, born in Faisalabad, was a woman with the courage of her convictions. She lived her life for art, creating paintings that will enable future generations to share her extraordinary vision. Zubeida graduated in Philosophy from Kinniard College and cast about for explanations for her wildly coloured dreams about painting. She began her study of art with Sanyal in Lahore. In her early work, she attempted to explore the theme in the medium of sculpture, also surrealistic paintings, done in somber colours with titles "Wisdom, "Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Deserted Street" and so on. She was offered an art scholarship in 1950,  and was enrolled at St. Martin's School of Arts, London but six months later transferred to the Ecole des Beau Arts, Paris and there, she began her serious study of art.Zubeida thoroughly explored the possibilities of colour, returning to Pakistan in 1953, with an intense, vigorously imaginative style of painting. Her opinions on modern art developments were definite. "What is the point of painting problems, does it solve anything. Galleries, are more interested in sales than standards and the artists are complicit in this. Without sincerity there is no true art", she once said. In 1965, Zubeida was Awarded the President\'s Award for the Pride of Performance. She died in 1997.