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Exhibition

A fresh wave of Impressionism

Anukul Mojumder's exhibition at "Shilpangan"

Fayza Haq
ANuKuL Mojumder, who has his exhibition of acrylic on paper at "Shilpangan" says that he was interested in painting since his childhood and later he was inspired by the local masters, Zainul Abedin, SM Sultan and Quamrul Hassan. "Like them I too portrayed rural scenes and the
beauty of simple village life and the inhabitants that one finds there, specially the women. I used acrylic as I can do the work quickly and can change at will. Also, the material is easily available locally. I have not used canvas because I need a bigger surface to place that on and it is difficult for me to store canvas. The paper that I've used is quite thick and durable, being fairly expensive. Handmade and locally produced, it costs Tk 22 per piece. In this exhibition I have worked on two series, mother and child, and Bangladeshi village scenes being inspired by what I saw at Bagerhat during my childhood: the trees, rivers, rivulets and the simple thatched homes. Elements such as boats and clouds affected me enormously in my youth and I try to capture their essence in my work. I want to modernize the Bengali traditional culture of my past. I want to project the beautiful elements that are characteristic of my country and naturally my youth.
"I have come to the city but the mechanization and pollution here induce me to be nostalgic about my younger days. I've grown up in a village without electricity and now that I've lived in the city for ages now, I find it difficult to adjust to the fast moving mechanical life here. I've dedicated my work to my grandmother and grand aunt so that you
will realize my attachment to the past.
"As for the mother and child theme, it has come down from before the Renaissance, the Middle Ages. I find an ethereal element in a child while a mother's love is something divine. I take the European style but set it in a Bangladeshi background and people in it with characters from the villages."
Talking about the difference between the present exhibition and the one before at the Zainul Gallery, Anukul says, "My earlier work was more academic than personal and individual even though that was somewhat abstract. I'm naturally influenced by Matisse and Van Gogh. In my present work I've tried to bring in the wet weather as well as the dry hot one."
In "Silence" we see a tall palm tree done in blue and black, while behind it are splashes of mauve, green and gray, which bring in a pathway, some hedges to the side, as well as trees and the sky which has been presented in rough geometrical divisions of space with variations of muted colours. In another painting the trunk of the tree has been brought in by subtle wriggling of a single line in graygreen, while on top are vigorous splashes of gray and white. The backdrop and a tree in front have been brought in with washes of
white and gray.
"Dream pond" brings in a soft gray-green swirl of water with intermittent strokes of white with vertical lines of black, touched with yellow and white, to bring in trees in the vicinity. More inclusion of gray in the backdrop, with mauve and white, shows the forest in the composition. Leaves and grass at the side of the pond have also been included. In another presentation of a tree we see gray and white in
dramatic strokes to bring in the details of the foliage, trunk and branches while the rest of the space is covered with cascading beige, mauve, with a boat in the distance and a fence in the forefront.
In "First love" we see woman in a sari, with a golden complexion, holding a child, done in strokes of blue and mauve. The backdrop in green, mauve and black includes a tree and a window of a house. In "Happy mother-1" we see maternal adoration once again in the form of a female cuddling her three children, each of them done in different sizes and hues, outlined with black. The woman's sari border is in bright green and red which offsets the indigo, brown and beige children with their mops of curly hair. The backdrop is in green, blue and gray, while rectangles of beige and emerald form the ground in front.
"Reunion" brings in a male form, with only a loin cloth, as he embraces a gorgeous female, in a red blouse and matching skirt, bordered with green and striped with red. Large eyes and cupid lips complete the woman while behind the couple is a playful child.
It is in the works of fairly young artists like Anukul Mojumder that we see the present generation artists' attempts to revive our past and yet surge ahead with confident steps.