Novara Ahmed: Not Dhumketu, the Dhrumatakara

This one entity is that unconditionally and totally dedicated to its art. The art has kept him in the eye and this heart of all-consuming emotion always gets excited. His life is living alone in the industry and for the industry.

This is what was said in the 1960's. He has been dedicated to the industry for more than fifty years. Just wanted to live by yourself; He lived his life. Recently, the leading living of this artist is at the age of sixty-eight years, far away.

Like his contemporaries, he wanted to be a painter, not a sculptor, sculptor. This election is his own. In the new university of post-partition Dhaka, there was still no scope for women's art education, sculptures were not included in the syllabus. He went to London, Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, London, to be interested in himself. Europeans have witnessed the tradition of modern sculptures, until the most recent period. In Florence, Venturino Venturi studio. In the artists of Europe - Donatello, Miklangelo, and the student's standing in front of Rosa's sculpture. All this should be part of his elaborate curriculum, his preparatory work, his preparatory work In the post-partition of East Bengal, in Bangladesh, the responsibility of introducing modern sculpture was entrusted to him. No other person gave him this responsibility, he gave himself.

Agartala divisional officer, father Syed Ahmed, in his growing city, Calcutta; Read the Convent - Loreto. In the liberal cultural environment of the house grew up with sisters and brothers. After the partition of Bengal, due to the father's return, Comilla, then for some time in the parents' city of Chittagong. Later, he returned to the country after studying sculpture from Europe, his work was in Dhaka - the capital city of East Pakistan, the art center of art production He thought that the architecture and sculpture would be complementary to each other in the city plan here. It was thought that the city would be inhabited by the horizon. With this dream, his debut as the first modern sculptor of the terrain. He made two very important sculptures in 1957 and in '58, before his first solo exhibition of about seventy-five sculptures in the central public library premises in the 1960's. The first is the work of the Public Commission: A modern fridge with a view of village-Bengal on the walls of the lofty public library of Mazharul Islam - wall-shaped upmarket sculpture. And the second private commission: Manipuriapara industrialist M. More. Open house sculpture, with a fountain in the garden of the building of Khan, whose content is farmer-family. Later on these two sculptures, on the occasion of his first exhibition, Zainul Abedin wrote,

We have been living with these two wonderful years for the last few years by the Dhaka residents. Even then, I think, the next few generations will be able to determine the impact of these two art works on our art.

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In Paris, from January to April, her first public exhibition was held in Paris, with the help of her life partner Gregory the Brunce in "Library the Silesky", with nine sculptures and paintings of paintings, all from 1969 to 2012 . But at one point of time, that Novara Ahmed could not live. If alive or alive, not active - have been knocked out of creativity, lost in the dark darkness

He is the other figure of the Shahid Minar. He is the pioneering modern sculptor of this terrain. But his sculpture was not limited to the work from 1957 to 1960, yet, as we saw him evolving as a sculptor in various episodes, we became visible. We see; But many did not see it for a long time - especially his contemporary artists. And because of not seeing Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth's imitation, some wanted to blow up his work, the first episode. They are just following imitation or following; He did not see that he wanted to match the Eastern sensation with the contemporary form of antiquity, his equal interest in ancient industries, he sought to find the subject of industry, derived from domestic surroundings, the roots of folklore. He has grown up with the medium constraints. Finding the way to establish yourself as the first professional feminist in the male society. More,

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After returning home, Novera was forced to build sculpture in plaster and cement; Because these are the cheap materials here. And there was wood. The stone did not match here, the bronze welding system was not there. But later on, in the second half of the 1960s, he built a metal sculpture. And they have grown up in search of medium possibilities and discoveries. From ancient to modern - His dialogue extending across a wide range of world-sculptures. At this stage, he made a sculpture of bronze in the shirt; The simplicity of the texture and the creation of all the different levels in the touch of spirituality, which was demonstrated by the bank in 1970. There were also eleven 'assemblages' created by some of the inferior sculptures and the devastation of the US war crashed in the Vietnam War. Thing is an entirely new experience in Thailand's art world. In the sub-industry,

The third exhibition in Paris was in Paris - in July of 1973. Equally number of paintings showcasing the twelve new metal pieces of metal sculpture. His activity may be less than a major part of a decade after; And one of its major reasons is the shock of road accidents. But he did not move from his creation; The new studios again came back full enthusiasm. The number of sculptures is less than that of 2009, and one after another has been photographed. There were crowds of wild birds; In the color-line, the statue has become a figure, the shape of the human nature. The last picture of the last exhibition is drawn in 2012 - Sea beach of Cox's Bazar.

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Novara Ahmed was recognized nationally at the beginning of his sculpture. His first exhibition in 1960 was not only in East Pakistan, in the whole of Pakistan, the first single sculpture exhibition of any sculptor irrespective of male and female. The artists of West Pakistan and the Kolarsikira also came to Dhaka to see his exhibition.

The President's Medal received the best sculpture in national paintings, sculptures and print exhibitions in Lahore from January 1961 to January 1962. Some of his sculptures are still preserved in Pakistan, personal and institutional collections. Not only that, he is still recognized as one of the pioneer modern sculptures in the country. According to Selima Hashmi, "Novarai is probably the first sculptor of Pakistan, who has always adopted a contemporary publication."

And in Bangladesh, in the then East Pakistan, Novarah's handwriting started in modern hands. No, he has no predecessor. Sculpture was included in the institutional art education in Dhaka in 1963, the status of the independent department and the class started in 1965 - by that time, a number of nomads had traveled abroad.

At one time he was considered comet, whose passing moment is the manifestation. But in the last two decades of search and research, Navarro Ahmed is being newly discovered in the history of the art of Bangladesh. Through the highest state honors (Ekushey Padak, 1997), part of the long-standing neglected sculptures in the initiative of Bangladesh National Museum and through the exhibition (April-May 1998), his resurgence in national life has been the honor of the pioneer sculptor. Although we may have to wait a little longer to get the overall identity of his artistry.

Navarra Ahmed is no longer a comet. This artist, who will be born in his lifetime, will be our constant - as a watcher, for his life-long "insight". We will think of his life - exceptional, unfortunate, and unreasonable