Abdus Shakoor
Abdus Shakoor (born 31 December 1947) is a Bangladeshi painter and calligrapher.
Also recorded as Abdus Shakoor Shah
Abdus Shakoor
Shakoor 47 (Shafayet Jamil). · Public domain
- Name
- Abdus Shakoor
- Born
- 31 December 1947
- Birthplace
- Bogra district, East Bengal, Pakistan
- Nationality
- Bangladesh · Pakistan
- Occupation
- painter
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• Name — Abdus Shakoor • Born — 31 December 1947 • Birthplace — Bogra district, East Bengal, Pakistan
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Abdus Shakoor (born 1947) is documented in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
Early life and career
Early life and career
Abdus Shakoor was born on 31 December 1947 in the Bogra district of Pakistan (now Bangladesh). His work focuses on ancestral and historical themes, following in the folk-tradition of Quamrul Hassan and Jamini Roy. Common themes in Abdus Shakoor's paintings include Bengali folk motifs and ballads; the "Mahua" and "Malua" love stories (two romantic folk ballads from Eastern Bengal, dating back to around the 17th century, collected by Dinesh Chandra Sen in the 1920s and published in his Eastern Bengal Ballads) as well as the Nakshi Kanthar Math. He has illustrated his works with folk-motifs. Peacock and parrots as well as elephants, bulls, cats, tigers, serpents and lizards feature prominently in his works. All of Abdus Shakoor's compositions are bordered with free-flowing thick brush lines. There is almost no hard line in the paintings. His style has been compared with European artists such as Piet Mondrian and Paul Klee. He is chairman of the Craft Department in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Dhaka University.
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Abdus Shakoor was born in 1947 in Bogra, Bangladesh.
Legacy
Among the awards Abdus Shakoor has won is a gold medal in the 15th National Art Exhibition at the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka, in 2002.
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- 1.Takir Hossain. Ancient ballads on canvas. The Daily Star. 8 October 2008.
- 2.Sen, Dinesh Chandra. Eastern Bengal Ballads. University of Calcutta. 1. 33–34, 56. 1923.
- 3.Bengal Foundation. Abdus Shakoor Shah.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 12
- Abdus Shakoor Shah. Dhaka Art Center.
- Haq, Fayza. Light and shade: Of ballads and blues of Bangladesh, Abdus Shakoor's exhibition at Bradford. The Daily Star. 21 December 2003.
- Our Talents. The Daily Star. 7 January 2005.
- Shakoor's 2008 exhibitions in India. Dhaka Courier. 9 January 2009.
- Garcia, Cathy Rose A. Exhibition Introduces Bangladeshi Art. The Korea Times. 4 May 2009.
- Hossain, Takir. Folk identity on Shakoor's canvas. The Daily Star. 28 October 2009.
- Rural faces, universal tales. Dhaka Courier. 6 May 2010.
- Hossain, Takir. Bengali Identity. The Daily Star. 29 December 2011.
- Shakoor Reveals 'Bucolic-Bengal'. Dhaka Courier. 18 August 2013.
- Hossain, Takir. Abdus Shakoor's solo exhibition begins today at Bengal Gallery. The Daily Observer. 9 October 2015.
- Muse of Myths. Prothom Alo. 10 October 2015.
- Shakoor depicts rural heritage on paintings. New Age. 13 October 2015.
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