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Editorial : Exploration & expansion of fine arts

Fineartsbd.com is a site dedicated to the exploration and expansion of fine arts; we intend it to be a resource for people all over the world, especially for Bangladeshis who want to explore various art forms. It is also designed to act as a medium for expanding quality art works to mass people. The creators of this site earnestly want it to be like a cultural café where men come, explore and get enriched. Fineartsbd.com is a wonderful collection of all forms of fine arts. It contains paintings. And in addition, you may find resources on sculpture, photography, film, dance, theatre, poetry and so on. This is how it’s different from other sites of similar type. Unlike others, it concentrates on the different branches of Fine Arts. You don’t think a single branch will represent the whole tree, do you? The life-blood of the site is youth. It’s a pleasure to welcome the young people to knock at our door and get their art works published. We know how...

Sculpting Bangladesh

Mushfique Wadud searches out the stories behind the most significant sculptures of Bangladesh, the majority of which are monuments to the struggle and spirit of independence, and learns why each and every one is indispensable to our heritage and identity. On October 18, the chairman of a faction of Islami Oikya Jote (IOJ), Fazlul Haq Amini, on behalf of the Islami Ain Bastobayon Committee threatened to pull down every single statue around the country declaring that the establishment of statues were against the principles of Islam. The statement came in the backdrop of the government decision to pull down five baul statues, from the city’s airport area on October 15, by officials of the Roads and Highways Department (RHD) and civil aviation authority after protests from a radical Islamic organisation called the Khatame Nobuyat (anti-Ahmaddiya movement), whose members tried to pull down the statue only a day or two earlier. For over a month, different rights’ group, cultural org...

Reminiscences in Lahore

Art Reminiscences in Lahore Fayza Huq T ayyaba Begum Lipi’s controversial and iconoclastic artistic works have been admired both at home and overseas. Her endeavours, in connection with the Britto Trust has always been something to write home about. To add to her artistic knowledge, Lipi visited Pakistan recently, this being her second visit. Her enthusiasm to add to her thirst for knowledge has taken her further on to the first world countries-- but they have not always been recounted or recorded, even in passing. Using razor blades, paintings of exotic legendary birds with women's head and other haunting female forms in the veil, Lipi, in her installations at Lahore, created quite a stir in her quest for liberation of the human mind. Lipi's installation in Lahore. The studio where she worked named after RM Naim, is reportedly Pakistan's largest gallery, and draws artists from all over South Asia. Naim is a teacher in L...

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