“Fear of Darkness” a 2008 piece by Nisar Hossain from a series by the same name. This series is famous for his fearless and powerful portrayal of the dark time we are living in. He uses the color black to convey the feelings of uncertainty, shock, and fear. A kind of fear works in our psyche. In the artwork, he drew the ugly and bizarre expression of an ominous creature trapped in the darkness of his society. The gesture radiates fear, it reminds of the life we are leading, a life without the freedom of speech, freedom of expression. A life devoid of safety, a life captured in invisible jail. This shows the chronology of decaying time and pleads for an escape.
Artist Profile
Nisar Hossain
Nisar Hossain is a renowned artist, critic, connoisseur, activist, organizer, and dons the hat of the Dean of the Faculty of Fine Art, University of Dhaka (DU) for the third consecutive time. He was born in 1961. After getting his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1981 from the Department of Drawing & Painting, University of Dhaka, he went to Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, India for doing Masters in Painting in 1985.
Fear of Darkness
Artist Art Style
Artist Nisar Hossain masters in Contemporary Painting & Folk Painting of Bangladesh. He has questioned the validity of our perception of life and art in this country at this moment. His Herculean efforts are bound to originate a wave of debate in the creative circle in various mediums and hardly comfortable for all sorts of conservative modernity.
As a socially conscious and responsible artist, he always tries to grasp the time and its spirit in his pursuit of art.
