Friday, November 22, 2024

Expatriate artist displays his retrospective

The UK based Bangladeshi artist Abu Jafar is displaying a retrospective of his abstract paintings done in the past two decades at the National Art Gallery of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. The show titled ‘Ekush Bochhor Sheshey’ expresses various stories of daily life through the shades of colours, which is termed as abstract expressionism. Layers of ... Read more

Shahabuddin’s paintings: Rooted in 1971

Shamsul Wares Liberation War, in which Shahabuddin Ahmed actively participated as a freedom fighter at the age of 21 — the massacre of innocent people, shocking personal experience of being caught up between life and death, fierce resistance of freedom fighters and the ultimate victory — seems to form his emotional built as a painter. ... Read more