Shakir Ali (Urdu: شاکر على (1975–1916) was an influential modern Pakistani artist and an art teacher.
Shakir Ali began with a cubist preference and many of his themes borrowed from classical European myths like ‘Europa and the Bull’ and ‘Leda and the Swan’.
He did some pioneering work in Arabic calligraphy in the 60s, in which the alphabetic form is used as a linear design using colour and visual rhythm to lend it a modern interpretation.
[2] Shakir Ali was of the view that an artist belongs to the entire world and cannot be confined to any national boundaries.
He was born in British India in 1916 and later chose to live the majority of his life in Lahore, Pakistan as an art educator.