Of Bangladesh’s many renowned modern artists, Zainul Abedin has probably achieved most fame outside his own country. His stirring pictures of the effects of the famine of 1943 won him international acclaim. Other artists have been greatly inspired in their work by various aspects of the countryside of Bangladesh-rivers, paddy fields, and men working on the land and women working in the homesteads. The more recent generation of artists has retained features of this tradition in their work, but has also been influenced by the non-figurative and abstract painting of the Western artists. |
