ART WORKSHOP AT DU
Korean team teach modern method
The fine arts students of Dhaka University are taking part in a fortnight workshop with the students of Korea National University of Arts at a studio at
the faculty of fine arts of Dhaka University.
The 11-member Korean team, led by professor Lee Ju Young, is demonstrating the contemporary foundation courses on painting, sculpture and video art to the 45 students of the painting department and sculpture department of the faculty of fine arts of Dhaka University.
The workshop also includes an exhibition and competition in which the local participants will demonstrate the knowledge they achieved from the workshop.
The top three contestants will get chance to participate in another advanced level workshop in Korea.
‘The Korean ministry of foreign affairs launched a dream project in the field of culture and art in Bangladesh,’ reads the official statement of the embassy of Korea sent to New Age.
Jung Hae Min, a delegate of ‘K-Arts workshop’ informed that the Korea National University of Arts had formed three separate teams to conduct such programmes in Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka as per the memorandum of understanding signed between the Korean government and its three South Asian counterparts.
‘Two teams will conduct art workshops in Bangladesh and in Sri Lanka. Another team will conduct the music workshop having the similar facility in India,’ Min said.
About the potential of the local students, the Korean delegate said, ‘They are very talented. But, the infra-structural support and the teaching method of the university are not modern as ours in Korea.’
The local participants also expressed their satisfaction as they were introduced to some contemporary methodologies used in fine arts teaching. ‘Some of their teaching techniques are like ours. But they apply very scientific method in art teaching,’ M Saifullah, a first year student of painting department of Dhaka University said.
‘We have been introduced to some technology based works in the workshop, which is a new experience,’ another participant Masudur Rahman told New Age.
-With New Age input
