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The Annual Stocktaking

Annual Art Exhibition 1999-2000 of Institute of Fine Arts

By Nafid Imran Ahmed
IT is only in the modern times that creative arts have made it to the academic curriculam the world over. The school of art and architecture, the conservatory of music, the academy of dramatic arts, and the university's creative-writing programme have emerged in the academia, some of them are not yet a century old . To most artists of the past it would have seemed Incomprehensible that they should go to school to learn (heir profession. Neither would any of the great educational institutions even a century ago have thought it part of their function to teach artists. Indeed, serious doubts continue to be expressed as to whether academic schooling is the best training for most branches of the arts. Formal instruction in the visual arts-painting. drawing. sculpture, and printmaking as well as the many arts of decoration and design--have the longest and most diversified history. A consideration of the patterns of development that have occurred in these related fields will reveal the general directions of training in all the arts as well as many of the basic problems running throughout the history of art education.
Institute of Fine Arts. University of Dhaka.founded in 1948. has been a symbolical foothold that we needed to plant the seeds of our aesthetic dreams.With the institution our movement of arts began. Quite naturally the yearly exhibition of the institution is suggestive of the course our art will take.
. The fortnight long annual exhibition of the Institute of Fine Arts started on February 18. Artist Shafiuddin Ahrfied. the only surviving member of the gruop who pioneered the founding of the institution, inaugurated the exhibition while Professor A K Azad Chowdhury. Vice Chancellor. University of Dhaka was present as chief guest. Architect Mazharul Islam and Rabindrasangeel exponent Kalim Sharafi were also present as special guests at the inaugural.
Each year the annual art exhibition coinsedes with the birth anniversary of artist Zainul Abedin. But this year due to the Ramadan, examination and vacation the 1999-2000 annual exhibition had to be delayed.
The annual show is a platform where the students gel (he chance to exhibit their yearly works.
. The institute receives a meagre amount of taka 22.000 from the Government for the annual exhibition. This amount has not changed since the 965.. The cost of organising such an exhibition requires at least 5 to 6 times more than that amount. Fund constraints does not even allow the institute to publish a catalogue of the
exhibition.
Around 750 art works by 403 students are on display at the exhibition. From the Painting Department 80 students participated. Most of their works are done in oil. walercolour, and mixed media. There are also some drawings and sketches. From the Printmaking Department 31 students have participated and their woiks are mostly in woodcut. dry point, lithograph and etching aquatint. The number of participant from the Graphic Design Department are 70 and their creative posters, book covers, illustration, show-cards and press layouts are quite interesting too.Wood relief, tapestry, batik, metal relief and screen prints are done by 30 students from the Crafts Department. Sixty-three students from the Oriental Department are exhibiting their works in watercolour, oil, tempera and. Forty-
two students from the Sculpture Department did some excellent jobs in bronze, wood, plaster, clay. iron, cement and stone. And students from the Ceramics Department created some eye-catching pieces of terracotta. porcelain, terracotta in tiles painting, sculptures, pottery. Hower vases and tableware. Pencil drawings by first year students are also in the exhibition.
This year 34 prizes are given indifferent categories the most outstanding works of the exhibition. Besides these, artist Aminul Islam scholarship (on sketch and colour media) and two other prizes are chosen by artist himself. Talented Fazal E Muttakim received Zainul award while Halimun Islam received Rashid Chowdhury award and Nurun Nahar Dena received Kamrul Hasan award.
The exhibition comes to an end on March 3.