Zainul Abedin 'Shilpacharya'
Great Teacher of Art. in Bangladesh.
Zainul Abedin was a Bangladeshi Painter born in Kishoregonj, on December 29 1914,East Bengal.British India.He became well known in 1944 through his Series of Paintings depicting some of the great Famines in Bengal during its British Colonial Rule or period.After the partition of India Subcontinent Zainul moved to East Pakistan.
Zainul Abedin is considered the founding father of Bangladeshi Painting and Drawing. He was an artist of outstanding talent and deserved international reputation.
For his artistic and visionary qualities, he is refered to as Shilpacharya meaning 'great teacher of art' in Bangladesh.He was the first Principal of the first art school in Dhaka in East Pakistan, (now Bangladesh.).
He organized the Nabanna (harvest ) exhibition, a 65 foot long scroll portraying the rural East Pakistan in phases from abundance to poverty.This intensified the already heightened non-cooperation movement against the Pakistan regime.
Zainul's dynamic style of work is quite evident in a 30 foot long scroll painting called Manpura, which was done to commemorate the death of hundreds and thousands of people in the devastating cyclone of 1970.He founded the Folk Art Museum at Sonargaon, and also Zainul Abedin Shangrahasala, a gallery of his own works in Mymensingh in 1975.
This eminent artist passed away on May 28,1976, Dhaka.Bangladeshi people will recall him or his outstanding Paintings and contributions to Art will be as a Pioneer of Bangladeshi painting and drawing.
"The aim of Art
is not to represent the outward appearance of things, but their inward Significance "---Aristotle
Thank All.
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