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Capturing nature's magic spell

Isme Azam's solo exhibition

Fayza Haq
With all the experimentation going on by young painters, it was a treat to see Isme Azam's recent landscape paintings at the Zoom Gallery at Alliance Francaise. Realistic and full of emerald sweeps, the paintings brought in the rich green areas in the Dhaka city and outside.
Azam, who is basically a student of sculpture, went into painting for sculpture was getting him nowhere, after three years of labour, “as that medium is not much in demand in Bangladesh," he explains. He is lucky that he gets the backing of his family. "Without that, I'd be nowhere," says Azam. Trees and flowers have fascinated him from his childhood. His spots are around the Fine Arts Institute grounds, the Jahangirnagar University area, and the city parks. Azam usually works at one stretch, from 10 am to 12 noon.
“Sometimes, when I'm in the mood, I manage to complete two paintings a day, working in the evening too. Then there are times when I workover the light effect
on a single painting for three days in a row. I use acrylic as I'm not a student of painting, and acrylic is easier to handle than watercolour or oil. I can easily put on layers upon layers and rectify the mistakes as I go along,” says Azam, who hopes to go in for oils as he matures.
I Ie admires works of Cezanne,
Manet and Van Gogh among the European masters, while in Bangladesh he is inspired by SM Sultan, Mohammed Kibria, Rafiqun Nabi and Shishir Bhattacharya. His teacher at the Institute of Fine Arts had been Hamiduzzaman Khan.
8> one of his paintings Azam worts on the different shades of
leaves -- pale green, dark emerald and brown. Azam also plays with the trunks and branches of the trees, and the manner in which the sun shines on the trees. In another work there are many trunks of trees, green hedges and tiles, as seen in Sohrawardy Park. His paintings are more for preservation of the intrinsic beauty of nature.
Spotting golden blossoms in a row in a flower nursery, he captures that for all times with his paints. The burst of yellow flowers are contrasted by red and purple ones at the side and back. He also brings in the reflection of trees on water in another of his paintings. He even paints the average polash as something unique.
Azam has also tried to capture the beauty of young rice shoots when they are clumped together, ready to be planted in the fields.
In all his works Azam has tried to display the freshness and beauty of nature to the best of his ability. His neat, clean sweeps are welcome indeed.
ThO'eKhibiriori ends today?'