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Art & Culture Report

The 4th solo art exhibition of artist Abdul Aziz titled 'Oriental Art Exhibition' was held at the Gallery Zoom at the Alliance Française in Dhanmondi in the capital recently.

The exhibition was inaugurated on June 19 and concluded on July 2 where 17 of his paintings reflecting the oriental life were exhibited in the gallery.

Abdul Aziz had chosen women, nature and birds as subjects of his paintings to open up the orient psyche and culture because he believes that women tells the story of the orient best.

He also mentioned that women have always played a role in upholding the true culture of particular societies - their dresses, ornaments, gestures and postures - all are very distinguished and unique.

In the paintings, the artist portrayed the harmonious relationship among women, birds and nature. He tried to give an insight to the orient by revealing the moments of solitude in women's life and their connection with the nature.

Some of his paintings were titled, 'Mirror with lady', 'Nature with woman', 'Lady with bird', 'Fallen' and others.

In the paintings, one would find how a woman looks after the beauty of nature within herself or how she wears nature as an ornament and also, how she shares her loneliness with a bird or how the nature tells the story of the beauty of orient and so on.

"Oriental art is realistic and very detailed and it takes time and patience to create them. All the paintings of this exhibition are made using watercolour in 'wash' method," said Aziz.

Abdul Aziz is going to exhibit more of his paintings later this year in his fifth solo exhibition, which will be based on the same theme. The venue for his next exhibition will be Zainul Gallery of the Institute of Fine Art of Dhaka University. The artist also participated in several group exhibitions in and outside the country including India and UK.

At present he is working as the Assistant Professor in the Fine Arts Institute of Dhaka University.