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Zainul Abedin (29 December 1914 – 28 May 1976), also known as Shilpacharya (Master of Art) was a Bangladeshi painter. He became well known in 1944 through his series of paintings depicting some of the great famines in Bengal during its British colonial period .
Zainul Abedin (29 December 1914 – 28 May 1976) was a Bengali painter. He became well known in 1944 through his Famine Series paintings of 1943. After the partition of India and Pakistan he moved to Pakistan, and when Bangladesh was created in 1971, he was rightly considered by Syed Manzoorul Islam as the founding father of Bangladeshi modern art.
বিশ্বের প্রাচীনতম ও সর্ববৃহৎ ব্রিটিশ নিলামকারী প্রতিষ্ঠান বনহামসে তার স্কেচ বিক্রয় হয়। [১৩] তিনি ১৯৫৮ সালে তৎকালীন পাকিস্তান ...
Zainul Abedin (b. 1914, Mymensingh, then India, now Bangladesh; d. 1976) was a painter, cultural organizer and pedagogue who is considered as the founding figure of Bangladeshi modern art.
Abedin, Zainul (1914-1976) an artist of exceptional talent and international repute. He played a pioneering role in the modern art movement in Bangladesh that began, by all accounts, with the setting up of the Government Institute of Arts and Crafts (now Institute of Fine Arts) in 1948 in Dhaka of which he was the founding principal.
Sep 23, 2020 · Zainul Abedin was a Bangladeshi artist born in 1914. View Zainul Abedin’s artworks on artnet. Learn about the artist and find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks, the latest news, and sold auction prices.
Leaving his teaching job at the Government School of Art in Calcutta, Zainul Abedin set forth to unveil the horror in his famine sketches. Made with rapid brush strokes, the sketches not only form a gripping account of the famine’s vicious spread and expose the structural ties between hunger and imperial violence, but, alongside the works of ...
Nov 3, 2018 · Zainul Abedin, reverently called the Shilpacharya or the guru of art, is the architect of the modern art movement in Bangladesh which began with the setting up of the Government Art Institute in Dhaka, in 1948. He was its founding principal and remained so until his retirement in 1967.
Sep 1, 2017 · The Bengali painter Zainul Abedin, who began his career as an art teacher in undivided India, was jolted out of his privileged existence by the Bengal Famine of 1943–44. At the birth of Pakistan in 1947, the thirty-three-year-old was one of the nation’s few professional artists.
Zainul Abedin (b. 1914, Mymensingh, then India, now Bangladesh; d. 1976) was a painter, cultural organizer and pedagogue who is considered as the founding figure of Bangladeshi modern art. A Muslim teacher of the Calcutta Art School, Abedin moved to East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) after the partition of India.
