Upholding the folk heritage of Bengal
A duet art exhibition titled “Porompora”, featuring artworks of Sreebash Basak and his daughter Urmila Shukla, is now on at Zainul Gallery-1, Faculty of Fine Art (FFA), University of Dhaka (DU). Eminent sculptor Ferdausi Prayabhashini along with renowned artists Abul Barq Alvi, Nisar Hossain (Dean, FFA) and Tajul Islam inaugurated the exhibition on October 24.
The exhibition superbly showcases the eternal folk heritage, essence of simple life, feminine grace, oriental line-based figures and visages and artistically premeditated fallen leaves.
The participating artist duo -- Sreebash Basak (b. 1950) and Urmila Shukla (b. 1979) -- represent two different generations, though they completed their academic education from the same department (Drawing and Painting) and same university (FFA, DU). But their creative ventures meet in a harmonious end. They have a great love for nature coupled with time-honoured folk cultural heritage of Bengal.
Sreebash Basak, a disciple of maestros Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin, Quamrul Hassan, Anwarul Haque, Safiuddin Ahmed and Mohammad Kibria, beautifully portrayed “Moner Manush”, a Tagore-styled depiction of a Baul with ektara; “Leelabali” several feminine figures; “Ashroy”, two sheltering daughters on the lap of their mother and “Sokhi”, a colourful oriental styled painting.
Urmila Shukla uniquely portrayed several mixed media works on the series titled “Potranjoli”. The artist has incorporated real fallen leaves woven by appliqué, colours and forms to complete the work.
The exhibition, open from 10am to 8pm daily, will conclude on October 30.
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