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Night Watch,
another misdeed by me...
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 Scanned from News Paper, Daily Star. Yes,I duplicate this famous Masterpiece keeping its original shape. I claimed this as the biggest Painting of Bangladesh. His excellency Gajentaan Henricus, Dutch Ambassador came to visit me (all the birds in the air could not touch me.), he helped me many way to put the painting in Nation Museum. Dhaka. Bangladesh.
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| A few good words about my works. By Nancy wong.>> (Journalist from Singapore) |
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| Visitors to the Rembrandt`s and Amsterdam exhibition that
ends tomorrow at the National Museum must have gazed in wonder at the great master's work.
"The Night Watch" which occupied the place of honor, right in the front of the
main hall . They may be forgiven if they had thought for a moment that Them royal
Netherlands embassy had transported all the way from the Rijks Museum in Amsterdam. for
the occasion. Arguably Rembrandt`s most acclaimed masterpiece. " The night watch
" is rated worlds most top ten Paintings all Time ., However farther enquiry reveal
that it is not the original, but a very close copy of the e magnificent art work of
art. Who had the audacity to imitation a painting so complex in composition ( with 22 life
size figures of that period's high society, fine details and above all Rembrandt`s
interaction of light and shade technique) and so daring in its scope of large scale
narration ? many asked if it was done by an accomplished artist or perhaps an expatriate
Dutch eager to show off his country`s cultural heritage. Wrong-on both counts . The life size copy is executed by a Bangladeshi Aminul Hassan , who has confessed to The Daily Star :" I have no pretentensions of being an artist. He is in fact an engineer with Department of Telegraph and Telephone Board at Gazipur, who fell in love with this renowned Dutch masters of 17th Century. and was specially drawn to Rembrandt`s paintings in Particular to the " Night Watch". Unlike others who make living out of copying famous works and try to pass them of as :original" . Hassan`s passion for the artistic work and his honesty is indisputable-as vouched for by his art lecturer and the country's leading dramatist, Sayeed Ahmed. As a way of relaxation , Hassan attended a course in western art at the Shilpakala Academy in 1987. Little did he know then what hard work this would eventually mean for him. A year later he spent three months in Belgium, Attending an engineering course. It was during this period he had an opportunity of visiting Amsterdam where he Ventured to Rijksmuseum. There , he saw "The Night watch" and his artistic fate was sealed : " The moment I saw that great masterpiece, I was dying to reproduce it", so captivated was he. Hassan knew very well that the task he had set himself was a formidable
one and he set a bout it painstakingly and meticulously by first doing extensive research
on the subject, to the extent of studying each individual figure in the painting as they
were all historical personages. who had each paid Rembrandt to include herself/himself in
the picture. He delved long and deep into what gradually become an obsession - to produce
the love of his life". He carefully studied the delicate brushwork of this massive
tableau together with the e colour mixing as part of the painting's beauty lay in the rich
contrast of the red and yellow and most importantly the play of light and shade
which was Rembrandt`s hallmark.. dream was fulfilled and he felt exhilarated at their reaction.Normally a quiet modest young man of few words Hassan no problem with words and his face lights up when he speaks of the object of his admiration., Rembrandt`s and art in general. This prompted this write to remark that he has taken up the wrong profession | at this he laughably replies " Its Matter of Dal and bhat" He would like to do similar project if sponsorship is forth coming-as he had dug a big hole in his savings for this one. But as viewers will most definitely agree" It was well worth it". |
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