Charukola 80
Renowned artist Rafiqun Nabi is enjoying beautiful paintings that are on display at Zainul Gallery 2 at Charukola Institute. -Tarik Sajib
An open window, when you look through that window, you can see a small pond where sampans are floating, young girls are taking bath thinking about their unforeseen future.
When anyone thinks about it, the whole dreamy scenery can take back anyone to the beautiful rural village of Bangladesh and make them dream. Such kind of fantasy and dream were captured through beautiful strokes of color in 50 paintings.
Fourteen seasoned artists are displaying their paintings done in different styles and mediums at a group show underway at Zainul Gallery of faculty of fine arts of Dhaka University.
Titled Charukola 80, it is a group painting exposition of Batch-80. The students who started their dream of being a painter in 1975 and reached their destination in 1980, came together to spread their dream among art enthusiastic.
Eminent artist Rafiqun Nabi inaugurated the show on Thursday, in presence of faculty of fine arts dean Nisar Hossain.
All the paintings were done in acrylic, watercolor, oil and mixed media. The themes and styles of the works also vary greatly.
Bimanesh Chandra Biswas' watercolor landscape paintings present the beauty of greenery through dense brush strokes. Human figures and natural elements like trees and rivers appear to be inseparable in the works.
In his acrylic paintings Zahirul Alam has realistically portrayed beauty of landscape and rural people. His canvasses show rural women doing household chores and fishermen catching fish.
Rezaun Nabi's acrylic paintings are semi-abstract in style. The paintings show broken figures, while forms and colors dominate the canvasses. The show will remain open till January 30.
