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Women Artists Of Bangladesh
The wife or daughter of the Bengali kumar or potter creates all products which do not involve the use of the wheel. They also paint all the products that are painted in the potter's family workshop, the ghata, sara or pot cover, dolls etc. In the weavers household the women do almost all else except work on the loom. However, women have never been part of the artisan tradition of the country. They have never been part of a guild. There were never any female swarnakar( goldsmith), sutradhar(carpenter) or takshak(carver). The economic structure of producer and consumer relationship that is current in the country has always been male-centristic. Yet the first painter that finds mention in Sanskrit literature is Chitralekha, who had run of the inner chambers of the Bana king of Pragjyotishpura. The painting skills of the companions of Radha find repeated mention in Vaishnava literature."The touch of the Bengali woman's dexterous hands is to be found in all of Bengal's folk arts. Ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bengali People
Bengalis (singular Bengali bn, বাঙ্গালী/বাঙালি ), also rendered as Bangalee or the Bengali people, are an Indo-Aryan peoples, Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group originating from and culturally affiliated with the Bengal region of South Asia. The current population is divided between the independent country Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura and parts of Assam, Meghalaya and Manipur. Most of them speak Bengali language, Bengali, a language from the Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language family. Bengalis are the List of contemporary ethnic groups, third-largest ethnic group in the world, after the Han Chinese and Arabs. Thus, they are the largest ethnic group within the Indo-Europeans and the largest ethnic group in South Asia. Apart from Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura, Manipur, and Assam's Barak Valley, Bengali-majority populations also reside in India's union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chitranibha Chowdhury
Chitranibha Chowdhury (27 November 1913 – 9 November 1999) was a twentieth-century Indian artist, a member of the Bengal School of Art, and one of the first female painters in Bengal. She created over a thousand artworks, including landscapes, still lifes, decorative art, murals, and portraits. She was a student of Nandalal Bose and was the first female painting teacher in Shantiniketan Kolabhaban. Her real name Nibhanani Bose was changed to Chitranibha Bose by Rabindranath Tagore. Early life She was born Nibhanani, to Saratkumari Devi and Dr. Bhagaban Chandra Bose at Jiagunje, in the Murshidabad district of present West Bengal. During her youth, her family relocated to Gomoh and then to Chandpur. There, in 1927, at the age of fourteen, her brought her to the attention of Monoranjan Chowdhury, a member of a highly educated and cultured Zamindar family of Lamchor, and he arranged for her to marry his younger brother, Niranjan Chowdhury. Life in Shantiniketan In 1928, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bengali Women Artists
Bengali or Bengalee, or Bengalese may refer to: *something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia * Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region * Bengali language, the language they speak ** Bengali alphabet, the writing system ** Bengali–Assamese script *** Bengali (Unicode block), a block of Bengali characters in Unicode * Bengali, Nancowry, a village in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India * , a ship launched in 1837 and wrecked in 1951 * Bengali, member of the ThunderCats * Bengali-Fodé Koita, Guinean footballer * Bengali Keïta, Guinean centre-back * Bengali Market, ancient market in New Delhi, India * Bengali River, river in northern Bangladesh * Bengali Singh, Indian politician * Abdul Wahid Bengali, 19th-century theologian * Ali Sher Bengali, 16th-century Sufi * Athar Ali Bengali, politician and teacher * Izzatullah Bengali, 18th-century Persian language author * Mohamed Bengali, Ivorian footballer * Muhammad Salih Bengali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anupam Hayat
Anupam Hayat is a Bangladeshi author and film critic. The author of the first textbook on film in Bangladesh titled ''Cholochitra Bidya'', published by Bangladesh Film Study Centre in 2004, Hayat is also credited with another textbook on cinema as an art titled ''Chalachitra Kala'', published by University Grants Commission in 2007. Early life Hayat became interested in writing film criticism by reading articles by late film director Alamgir Kabir in the late 1960s. While he was a student of Journalism and Mass Communication at University of Dhaka, he took the course "Mass communication and motion picture". But, he enriched his writing skill, contributing to various newspapers and magazines on film. Publications Hayat's book on the country's film history ''Bangladesher Chalochitrer Etihash (1896-1987)'', published by the Bangladesh Film Development Corporation, features a chronological history of movies, film activists, and historical incidents took place during the perio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanak Chanpa Chakma
Kanak Chanpa Chakma (born 6 May 1963) is a Bangladeshi Chakma artist who has won national and international awards, and is renowned for her paintings depicting the lives of Bangladeshi ethnic minorities, focusing on the lives of women, and their daily lives combining semi realistic and abstract in the same frame. Biography Kanak was born in 1963 in the Rangamati Hill Tracts, in a small town named Tabal Chari, a remote hill area. She is a member of the Chakma people. Her father is a retired businessman and her mother is a textile designer and weaver who has twice won national awards for her work. She attended the School of Art, University of Dhaka in Bangladesh and received her Master of Fine Arts degree in 1986. Later she studied art at Pennsylvania State University in the United States from 1993 to 1994, where she received the Mid-American Arts Alliance Fellowship. She returned to Bangladesh after successful completion of her course. Her husband, Khalid Mahmood Mithu, is an ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niloofar Chaman
Niloofar Chaman is a Bangladeshi artist based in Chittagong, Bangladesh, whose work focuses on themes of social injustice and discrimination against women. Career Niloofar Chaman's artistic style is characterized by bold forms and vivid colors, inspired by modelling found in Bengal folk art. Her work is part of the Chittagong art tradition which uses experimental methods and seeks to contain a strong sense of narrative. Her work seeks to highlight the absurdities and inequalities of wealth inequalities among a small percentage of society. In the 1980s, her work was described as "strongly distinctive", and were originally monochromatic before including the flat application of bright primary colours. Her methods for oil painting sat in contrast to customary methods, instead using small strokes of the brush while keeping the rest of the canvas largely colorless. In 1990, she received the Young Artists Award from the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. Her known works include a serie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atia Islam Anne
Atia Islam Anne is a Bangladeshi artist known for her work on women's regrets, needs, despair and frustration and, more broadly, violence against women. Along with artists like Dilara Begum Jolly, Kanak Chanpa Chakma, and Fareha Zeba, Anne is part of a movement of women artists whose feminist work became more popular during the 1990s in Bangladesh. Biography Education In 1982 Anne received a BFA in Drawing and Painting from Institute of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, and in 1985 received an MFA in Drawing and Painting at the same university. Career Major themes Atia Islam Anne's work has been cited as "testament to a newly awakening consciousness among the female artists of Bangladesh", particularly her "Women and Society" series as a satire on the dominant, male myth and simultaneously an attack on the patriarchal system, in which women are viewed solely as sex objects. Atia Islam Anne's works are surrealistic and have a touch of fantasy, tinged with irony and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferdousi Priyabhashini
Ferdousi Priyabhashini (19 February 1947 – 6 March 2018) was a Bangladeshi sculptor. She was the first one to publicly announce herself as '' Birangona'', a term coined by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman for the rape victims of the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971. Government of Bangladesh awarded her Independence Day Award in 2010. Early life and career Priyabhashini was born on 19 February 1947 in Khulna, Bangladesh to her parents Rowshan Hasina and Syed Mahbubul Hoque. Priyabhashini was married to an artist in 1963. She had to work in a jute mill for her family. But financial problems grew and the couple got separated in 1971. Priyabhashini later became a sculptor. Since 1990, she has exhibited her works through exhibitions. Her first exhibition was jointly inaugurated by artist SM Sultan and poet Sufia Kamal, and anchored by Syed Shamsul Haque Syed Shamsul Haq (27 December 1935 – 27 September 2016) was a Bangladeshi writer. He was awarded Bangla Academy Literary Award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dilara Begum Jolly
Dilara Begum Jolly is a Bangladeshi print artist, sculptor, installation artist, and painter. She is known for her work highlighting Sexism, discrimination against women and explicitly presenting feminist perspectives in her work. Biography Personal life Dilara Begum is known more by her nickname Jolly than her official name. She studied painting and printmaking at Government Arts College, Chittagong (BFA 1981); then gained her Master of Fine Arts, Painting at the Institute of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka, Institute of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka, in 1984. In 1991, she gained a Post Diploma in Print Making in Shantiniketan, Santiniketan, West Bengal, with a scholarship from the Indian Government. Jolly said in an interview that her mother was the first inspiration for her to overcome social barriers, and that her mother used to say "women should become educated, and to achieve a voice of their own they need to be economically self-sufficient" In 2011, Jolly and her husb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akhtar Jahan
Akhtar ( fa, links=no, ) means "star" in Persian. It is a unisex name. It is also a common surname. A variant spelling is Akhter. Notable people with the given name or surname include: Given name Akhtar * Akhtar Aly Kureshy Pakistani lawyer and professor * Akhtar ul Iman (1915–1996), Indian Urdu poet and screenwriter * Akhtar Mengal, Pakistani politician * Akhtar Hameed Khan, Pakistani development practitioner and social scientist * Akhtar Khan, British television and radio presenter for the BBC * Akhtar Chaudhry, Pakistani-Norwegian politician * Akhtar Hussain Malik, general of the Pakistan Army Akhter * Akhter Husain (1902–1983), Pakistani politician Aktar * Aktar Islam, British-Bangladeshi restaurateur Surname Akhtar * Ayad Akhtar, American playwright, novelist, and screenwriter * Farhan Akhtar, Indian film director * Gulraiz Akhtar, Pakistani field hockey player * Jan Nisar Akhtar, Indian poet * Javed Akhtar, film writer and poet from India * Najma Akhtar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
