Abdus Shakoor (painter)

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Abdus Shakoor
Abdus Shakoor in 2009
Born	(1947-12-31) 31 December 1947 (age 76) Bogra district, East Bengal, Pakistan
Nationality	Bangladeshi

Abdus Shakoor (born 31 December 1947) is a Bangladeshi painter and calligrapher.^[1]

Abdus Shakoor was born on 31 December 1947 in the Bogra district of Pakistan (now Bangladesh).^{[citation needed]} His work focuses on ancestral and historical themes, following in the folk-tradition of Quamrul Hassan and Jamini Roy.^[2] Common themes in Abdus Shakoor's paintings include Bengali folk motifs and ballads; the "Mahua" and "Malua" love stories^[1] (two romantic folk ballads from Eastern Bengal, dating back to around the 17th century, collected by Dinesh Chandra Sen in the 1920s and published in his Eastern Bengal Ballads)^[3] as well as the Nakshi Kanthar Math. 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.^[1]

All of Abdus 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.^{[citation needed]}

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

Among the awards Abdus Shakoor has won is a gold medal in the 15th National Art Exhibition at the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka, in 2002.^[2]

• 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.
• 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. Archived from the original on 20 February 2016.
• Hossain, Takir (29 December 2011). "Bengali Identity". The Daily Star.
• "Shakoor Reveals 'Bucolic-Bengal'". Dhaka Courier. 18 August 2013. Archived from the original on 20 February 2016.
• 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. Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 8 February 2016.
• "Shakoor depicts rural heritage on paintings". New Age. Dhaka. 13 October 2015.

• Online Gallery of Shakoor's works