DHAKA, July 9, 2019 (BSS) – Cultural personalities at a programme on Monday
affirmed that advant-grade artists – SM Sultan, Patua (folk artist) Quamrul
Hasan and painter Qayyum Chowdhury – took the arts and crafts of Bangladesh
to international levels.
The speakers said the three artists have enriched our arts and crafts with
their unorthodox artworks as their masterpieces were assembled in different
countries.
People throughout the world come to know about the art and culture of
Bangladesh through the arts and crafts of the three pioneers, they added.
They came up with the observation while addressing a programme in
remembrance of the three legend artists at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy
(BSA).
Director General of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy Liaquat Ali Lucky
presided over the commemorative seminar titled ‘Smrity-Satta-Vabisshyat’.
Artist Mustafa Zaman, writer-researcher Mofidul Hoque and artist Shaon
Akand respectively presented and read their treatises on the lives and
creative works of artists S M Sultan, Quamrul Hassan and Qayyum Chowdhury.
Artist Qayyum Chowdhury’s wife Tahera Khanam Chowdhury, country’s renowned
artist Hashem Khan, Dhaka University Fine Art Faculty Dean Professor Nissar
Hossain, art critic Moinuddin Khaled and BSA’s fine arts director Ashraful
Alam Poplu, among others, addressed the event.