Re: A panorama of beautiful Bangladesh in oil, pastle and acrylic
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An unidentified boy was found dead in a goods train at Kamalapur Railway
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Railway security guard Mohammad Amirul Islam found the body in the Surma
Mail at around 12:45pm. The train arrived at the station from Sylhet at
10:05am.
The boy, aged about eight, was strangled, forensic experts at the Dhaka
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> A panorama of Bangladesh in oil, pastel and acrylic
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> Saturday October 09 2004 11:34:01 AM BDT
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> NAUSHAD ALI HUSEIN
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> A Bangladesh, as close to nature as it could be, is depicted in oil,
pastel and
> acrylic through the brushes of eleven contemporary Bengali painters. Roop
> Labonyae Bangladesh at Gallery Chitrak exhibits their work that began on
> October 3, 2004.(The New Age )
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> The paintings, mostly landscapes, show an array of amazing scenery,
endless
> open fields and beautiful clouds on vast open skies. And then, there were
> paintings of people represented in different activities.
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> Shamsuddoha had several entries most of which were landscapes. What was
> striking in his work was the ever-present sky. Sundarban 1, a work in
pastel,
> had an ordinary blue sky and grey clouds, but they had a brilliant
> golden-vanilla hue like one given by a setting sun.
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> The unusual colour had a stunning effect on the otherwise ordinary image
of a
> typical green flatland. In another work, the sky shown is one that is
about to
> burst into heavy rain. In this painting, a section of the sky is a light
blue
> with a slight purple tinge, giving it a fantastic effect.
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> Shishir Bhattacharjee expresses his obvious love for the tea gardens of
the
> Northeast. The tall rain trees add grace to the otherwise featureless,
rolling
> dunes. In his paintings, there are bushes in the foreground which is often
> foreign to the tea-growing lands behind them. He does not leave out the
people
> of the land. Particularly in one of his landscapes, the prototypical
worker
> with the red gamchha, green lungi, and the quintessential white genji
comes
> alive!
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> Speaking of people, Nasreen Begum's Seated Woman,' will surely tingle
one's
> imagination. The painting done in watercolour shows a wealthy woman in a
sari
> sitting in a provocative posture, her dark sub-continental skin
complementing
> the bindiyaa on her forehead. Nasreen Begum has often compromised reality
for
> aesthetic value. For example, in Portrait, 'grammatically,' the woman's
right
> ear-ring should not be visible from her position. The part of the silver
> ornament shown, however, renders a pleasing effect.
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> Roop Labonye Bangladesh would be otherwise incomplete without an image or
two
> of the rain. There are several, mostly by Jamal Ahmed. Boats and water are
his
> forte. The river-side 1 is a brilliant example. It shows the boats bunched
> together at the edge of a river, the ferry passengers huddled under their
> umbrellas ready to go across. Another painting shows a group of fishermen
> marching to their boats in the early dark hours of dawn.
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> Alakesh Ghosh displays some of the classiest images in the exhibition. The
> paintings are more colourful and subtle in their message. They portray a
sense
> of intimacy with the subjects. The beauty of his work is in the
transparency of
> the water-colours he uses, particularly in his River Escape series.
beautiful
> images of a busy river life.
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> "We have an exhibition like this once every year," says Mohammad
Muniruzzaman,
> a participant and executive director of Gallery Chitrak. One of his own
works
> is Winter Morning showing a bare tree full of different birds of
Bangladesh,
> including the crane, the bulbul, and the woodpecker. The picture adds
colour
> and variety to the exhibition.
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> Roop Labonye Bangladesh, featuring sixty-six paintings by eleven
contemporary
> artists, ends on October 12.
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> The New Age
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