Abdus Shakoor (painter)

Abdus Shakoor
Shakoor in 2009
Born	(1947-12-31) 31 December 1947 Bogra district, East Bengal, Pakistan (now Bangladesh)
Nationality (legal)	Bangladeshi

Abdus Shakoor (born 31 December 1947) is a Bangladeshi painter and calligrapher.

Early life and career

Shakoor was born on 31 December 1947 in the Bogra district of Bangladesh. His work focuses on ancestral and historical themes, following in the folk-tradition of Zainul Abedin, Quamrul Hassan, Jamini Roy and Qayyum Chowdhury. Common themes in Shakoor's paintings include Bengali folk motifs and ballads; the Mahua and Malua love stories as well as the Nakshi Kanthar Math and the Maimansingha Gitika. He has illustrated his works with folk-motifs. Peacock and parrots as well as elephants, bulls, cats, tigers, serpents and lizards feature prominently in his works.

All of Shakoor's compositions are bordered with free-flowing thick brush lines. There is almost no hard line in the paintings. His style has been compared with European artists such as Piet Mondrian and Paul Klee.

He is chairman of the Craft Department in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Dhaka University.

Legacy

Among the awards Shakoor has won is a gold medal in the 15th National Art Exhibition at the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka, in 2002.

Further reading

• 45 artworks by or after Abdus Shakoor at the Art UK site
• "Abdus Shakoor Shah". Dhaka Art Center.
• Haq, Fayza (21 December 2003). "Light and shade: Of ballads and blues of Bangladesh, Abdus Shakoor's exhibition at Bradford". The Daily Star.
• "Our Talents". The Daily Star. 7 January 2005.
• "Shakoor's 2008 exhibitions in India". Dhaka Courier. 9 January 2009 – via HighBeam Research. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)
• Garcia, Cathy Rose A. (4 May 2009). "Exhibition Introduces Bangladeshi Art". The Korea Times.
• Hossain, Takir (28 October 2009). "Folk identity on Shakoor's canvas". The Daily Star.
• "Rural faces, universal tales". Dhaka Courier. 6 May 2010 – via HighBeam Research. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)
• Hossain, Takir (29 December 2011). "Bengali Identity". The Daily Star.
• "Shakoor Reveals 'Bucolic-Bengal'". Dhaka Courier. 18 August 2013 – via HighBeam Research. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)
• Hossain, Takir (9 October 2015). "Abdus Shakoor's solo exhibition begins today at Bengal Gallery". The Daily Observer. Dhaka.
• "Muse of Myths". Prothom Alo. 10 October 2015.
• "Shakoor depicts rural heritage on paintings". New Age. Dhaka. 13 October 2015.

External links

• Online Gallery of Shakoor's works