Kazi Ghiyasuddin

Kazi Ghiyasuddin, a contemporary Bangladeshi artist, works in both Dhaka and Tokyo. He was born in Madaripur, Bangladesh, in 1951. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka, in 1970. Soon after that, he left for Japan under a scholarship to pursue his master’s degree and then a Ph. D in Art from the National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo. Although Ghiyasuddin now spends most of his time in Tokyo, he chooses to spend the monsoon-laden summer months in his studio in Dhaka. The Japanese government honored him with the Emperor’s Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Rays, in 2018.

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Kazi Ghiyasuddin has been different from his contemporaries in his expression of art. This 2000 abstract painting is no different. He finds music in the harmony of nature and uses color to flesh out the tune. His painting his way of connecting to the world around him. He uses colors, patterns, and signs and forms a conversation with what can not be seen. In his journey of joy and horror, he makes the deliberate decision of adopting lines and colors to express the underlying story, rather than copying what is visible to human eyes.

Artist Art Style

Kazi Ghiyasuddhin has his distinctive language of art. Instead of merely copying nature he seeks inspiration from it. Instead of translating beauty, he conveys truth, and instead of just following the rules, he is lead by the joy of his heart. The natural world and the hidden secrets of the world around him have been his source of inspiration for painting.