Visual Art
Zainul Abedin
Shilpacharya, master of modern Bengali art
- Era
- 1914–1976
- Origin
- Mymensingh
His stark ink drawings of the 1943 Bengal famine became the defining images of that catastrophe. He founded the institution that is now the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Dhaka and established the folk art museum at Sonargaon.
Career highlights
- Famine Sketches, 1943
- Founded the Government Institute of Arts, Dhaka
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