Wednesday | 17 June 2026 | Reg No- 06
Wherever I met him, Jahangir bhai (Syed Jahangir) used to warmly receive me and inquire after my writings. Several times I visited his apartment-cum-studio in Sir Syed Road, Mohammadpur; talked about his paintings of several decades, styles, use of medium
Today marks the 104th birth anniversary of Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin (1914-1976), the leading figure in the history of modern art movement in Bangladesh. A well-known figure for his leadership qualities in organising artists and art movements, Abedin took the initiative
I have not got proper opportunity to meet the veteran painter Debdas Chakraborty in his lifetime. But once I saw him when he was in the stage of almost comma and he was bedridden for a long time. During the
The history of contemporary art in Bangladesh begins at the time of partition of the subcontinent in 1947, when Zainul Abedin and some of his contemporaries Habibullah Bahar, Shafiqul Amin, Quamrul Hassan, Khaja Shafique Ahmed, Safiuddin Ahmed, Anwarul Haq, Ali
Over the last four decades, Hamiduzzaman has been constantly trying to give a new language and fresh shape to his works. When we closely observe Hamiduzzaman's creations, we can easily recognise his preference for various unfamiliar and familiar forms. He
Sikdar Aminul Haq is generally a modernist Bangladeshi poet. He is also a prolific poet and his poems are of outstanding intellectual quality. Incidents of everyday life can be found in much of his poetry but in a very symbolic
A few weeks before his death in 2014, I went to Gallery Chitrak in Dhanmondi in the evening for just a hang out, where I came across artists Rafiqun Nabi, Jamal Ahmed, Mohammad Muniruzzaman and Nisar Hossain. After a while,
Basilio (an art gallery) and Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy have jointly organised a group art exhibition which carries a distinct trait because of some high ranking Indian painters' attention-grabbing works with several Bangladeshi technically advanced painters' works put on display at
I distinctly remember my introduction to Aminul Islam at his Gulbagh house in the city. The house was beautiful in its architectural patterns. His studio was spacious and people from every strata came over to see him and his works.
Realism began as an art movement in the early nineteenth century in France in a bid to represent people and their everyday realities through precise observation. The artistic movement, realism is distinct from the word realism-the latter an aspect of
