Bold strokes of vivid colours, diverse subject matters, and stimulating compositions— all can be experienced at the group painting exhibition currently being held at the Dhaka Art Centre in Dhanmondi.
A group of 24 artists have showed their artistic talent in 47 paintings at the six-day exhibition which offers the visitors a tour in the world of colours. Therefore, the exhibition has justly been titled Symphony of Colours.
The show has united 23 young and talented artists who had one thing common for this particular exhibition- they have all used acrylic as the medium in their paintings.
The exhibition is lively with an array of subject matters ranging from human lives to wild animals, tranquil nature to devastating firearms. For an instance, artist Ranjit Das has captured a woman arranging her hair on her back in his painting titled Images and Reflection 2. The canvas, dominated by bright yellow and the woman painted in blurry blue, compel spectators to pause and pay attention to the painting.
The enlightened side of human life has been dealt in artist Shyamal Biswas’s piece titled Meditation 2, depicting two Buddhist monks and a huge bell in a Buddhist temple. There is a unique appeal to the painting that lets one feel an aura of a temple situated in a cold, snowy region of the Himalayas, far from a chaotic city life.
Nature has appeared time and again in several works on display. One such painting is Swan that depicts two swans swimming aimlessly on blue lake water by artist Nasima Khanam Queenie. The ripples in the water created by the movement of the swans that have been visibly portrayed may transport the spectator to a far lakeside, making him forget the fact that he is actually standing in a gallery packed with hundreds of visitors.
Nasima Khanam Queenie, one of the participating artists and also the curator of the exhibition, informed New Age that the paintings have been produced from a workshop, which was held in August in 2013 and was conducted by artist Ranjit Das. ‘The aim of the workshop was to unite the artists and to give them an opportunity to know each others’ work,’ said Queenie, who further shared that the workshop involved various styles and techniques including realism, semi-realism and figurative.
Inaugurated on February 28, the exhibition ends today.
-With New Age input
