A remarkable contemporary exhibition
It is indeed a remarkable group exposition arranged by Shilpangan, a leading art gallery, only on Drawings and Sketches of Master Painters of the country. The exhibit begins at the capital's Shilpangan gallery today (November 27).
Drawing is the primary creative impulse imbued in the imagination of any artist. This is the basic instinct with which they begin to swim in the fathomless sea of art and paintings, and pass across the dream with mission and vision through an unknown and mysterious journey that has to be carried over the whole life of a creator. The world of realistic or objective and abstract or non-objective, whichever styles and techniques the doer chooses, there is only the raft of expression available to sail on and go forward that is by means of art of drawing. That drawing must be of meaningful sojourn.
The present exhibition is of such a high calibre to be marked. We have the privilege to enjoy the bold happenings and brilliant instances of scrapings or diggings by Master Painters of the country like Qayyum Chowdhury, Murtaja Baseer, Mustafa Manwar, Rafiqun Nabi and Syed Lutful Haque. In these drawings one can see the spontaneous black ink-lines to go as the creator wishes with an aim and purpose and through those the faces of men or women, the nature with boats, rivers and trees, the birds, the sailors, the paddy fields of village areas specially the cows and cowboys are all depicted vividly with a story and message left to the viewers.
Qayyum Chowdhury, though he left us last year, has such a realistic presence through drawings that it seems he is with all of us always. Murtaja Baseer's visages of women are also clear; they tell of emotions in the back of the mind through his drawings. Mustafa Manwar's subtle, simple and very few ink-scribbles give the clear landscape of rural scenario. Rafiqun Nabi's picturesque doodling gives life to his street-boy Tokai, pigeon and face of Qayyum Chowdhury. Lutful's nude drawings, women's faces and sitting women on the veranda of rural adobe are very nostalgic in nature.
This exhibition of drawings is a very important event. Students of fine arts and paintings and young painters will be encouraged and comfortable to learn and practice drawings minutely and take this as an inspiration seriously as well as it is highly educative no doubt. It is a noteworthy drawing exposition of high quality to be considered and remembered by all.
The writer is an art critic.
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