The 91st birth anniversary of master artist SM Sultan will be observed in befitting manner today at Narail.
SM Sultan Foundation and the district administration have chalked out daylong programmes to mark the birth anniversary of the celebrated painter.
Besides, SM Sultan Bengal Art College in Narail, Jessore Sultan Art College, educational institutions and various local socio-cultural organisations will also celebrate the artist’s birth anniversary.
The celebration programmes will begin with placing of floral wreaths at the artist’s grave at Masumdia area at Narail.
Qurankhani, milad mahfil, mazar ziarat, art competition and discussion session will be held at Shishu Swarga auditorium in the town.
President of SM Sultan Foundation and Narail deputy commissioner Mohammad Abdul Gaffer Khan is expected to attend the function as the chief guest while additional deputy commissioner (general) Ananda Kumar Biswas will preside over it. The legendary artist Sheikh Mohammed Sultan, better known as SM Sultan, was born on August 10 in 1923 at Narail.
Sultan, a life-long erratic, eccentric, saintly, bachelor, portrayed the common rural men and women in his colourful canvasses. What strikes most is the plethora of muscular depiction of peasants and working men and women in Sultan’s work.
Acknowledged by Cambridge University as the Man of Asia in 1982, SM Sultan was conferred with all the major civil awards of Bangladesh. He received Ekushey Padak in 1982, the Bangladesh Charu Shilpi Sangsad Award in 1986, and the Independence Day Award in 1993.
The artist breathed his last on October 10, 1994.
-With New Age input
