The 103rd birth anniversary of the country’s most revered artist Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin will be observed today.
Marking the day, various programmes have been arranged at different places including the capital and Mymensingh.
Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin was born on December 29 in 1914.
In 1933, he got admitted to the Calcutta Government Art School in Kolkata. After the end of his studies, he joined as a faculty in the same school.
In 1948, he established the Institute of Arts and Crafts, now the Faculty of Fine Arts at Dhaka University.
Zainul was the founder principal of the institute. Zainul Abedin’s series of water color paintings on the Brahmaputra River had won the gold medal in All-India Exhibition in 1938.
He had been recognized all over the world for drawing a famous picture on the famine of 1943.
Artist Zainul Abedin was conferred the title of Shilpacharya for his outstanding contribution in arts.
His paintings were the first ones that made Bangladeshi paintings familiar in different countries in the world.
In 1975, Zainul Abedin set up a folk museum at Sonargaon and a permanent gallery in Mymensingh (Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin Sangrahashala) to display some of his works.
He actively involved in a movement to preserve the cultural heritage of Bengal.
Zainul Abedin died in May 28 in 1976.
