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Tweaking the imagination

Dhaka Art Centre holds painting workshop

Fayza Haq
A painting workshop at Dhaka Art Centre, organised by artist Nasima Khanom Queenie, and run by Ranjit Das has promising artists as participants. Ranjit says that he is familiar with some of the painters, but with most, the exchange of ideas occurred at the workshop. Among them were painters like Kakoli, whose paintings one had seen earlier at Alliance Francaise and Shilpangan. There was Soheli, a senior artist. There was Shilu with her flowers and band of gray, and boys who painted like Dipu, with his cityscape, which was mature and touching. Queenie herself has taken part, and she had a plantation of trees of all shapes and sizes, in brown, emerald green and branches forking out in different directions. A boy had painted a landscape with sky, sea and hills—replete with lush forests.
Some had painted Buddhist priests; some a delicate lady with an old fashioned style of draping a sari.
A few of them had come from The Dhaka Art College, while others from HODA and one or two from Bulbul Lalitkala Academy, says Ranjit. He says that he has been introduced to them only on Friday, and was unacquainted with their painting abilities. He says that he sat and assessed their thoughts and imagination. He next gave them a lecture on what was expected of them at the workshop. On Saturday, says Ranjit, he initiated their work on canvass. He clearly says that painting is to be enjoyed-it is meant to be
a work of imagination and joy. He says that what the young artists knew of Picasso, Braque and Van Gogh—they are meant to apply that to their work. Each painter continued their vision and style. If someone sees beauty in a wall that can be a painting as long as the texture is maintained. Through the window, with bushes and trees growing randomly-they have every right to go with their outlook and style. Even Queenie, who organised the event-got help from Ranjit. The guiding artist wishes to improve the
"Language" of the artists. He wishes to improve the dimension, and make sure that the work left an impact on the mind of the art buff.
Ranjit says that the young painters must stick to their themes and not switch from
one topic to another, or they would be unable to master their vision and style. He said to the young, eager painters that each of the painters should have a signature and mood of their own. He says that seeing Aminul Islam or Mohamed Kibria's work one instinctively knows who the artist is.
The guide says their brush and pigment are fine but they must progress. Most of them have done their Masters. Speaking of the subjects of the young artists, he says that some have done interior designing while some have done portraits and others still life. "I only guide", he says. Ranjit says that if he is portraying a wall of bricks, and it does not have the effect that he desires, "my painting is no good. Similarly if the texture of the skin of a portrait is not captured, my attempts are in vain."