bangladeshi art and culture
Sunday, 8 December 2013
Quamrul Hassan
was born in Kolkata, India on 2 December 1921. he was a Bangladeshi artist and a patriot. In Bangladesh, Hassan's
fame as an artist is perhapsIn Bangladesh, Hassan's
fame as an artist is perhaps. . Hassan is often referred
to in Bangladesh as Potua, a word usually associated
with folk artists, due to his down to earth style yet very modern in nature as
he always added Cubism other than the folk style to his artworks.. He was an artist who
always tried to represent the culture of his country through his paintings.Hassan died on 2 February
1988 after suffering a massive heart attack while attending the National Poetry
Festival. He was buried beside the central mosque of the University
of Dhaka.
this portrait draw by zakir hosn.
Friday, 6 December 2013
After only five years of schooling in Victoria Collegiate School in Narail, Sultan joined with his father to work as a mason. He began to draw the buildings his father worked on and developed an artistic disposition. He wanted to go to Kolkata to study art but his family did not have the means to send him there. Eventually, Sultan went to Kolkata in 1938 with monetary support from the local zamindar (landlord)
He was well known for his leadership qualities in organising artists and art activities in a place that had practically no recent history of institutional or professional art. It was through the efforts of Zainul Abedin and a few of his colleagues that a tradition ofmodern art took shape in Bangladesh just within a decade. For his artistic and visionary qualities the title ofShilpacharya has been bestowed on him.
Zainul Abedin (1914-1976) an artist of exceptional talent and international repute. He played a pioneering role in the modern art movement in Bangladesh that began, by all accounts, with the setting up of the Government Institute of Arts and Crafts (now Institute of Fine Arts) in 1948 in Dhaka of which he was the founding principal
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