Tahsin Faruque
Zainul Abedin born on 29 December 1914. He was a Bangladeshi painter, painted this painting.
Background and History of this painting:
In 1943 a famine occured in Bengal generally known as famine 1943. Also known as panchaxer manvantar (the famine of fifty, that is the Bengali year 1350), was a great calamity. This led to a marked decline in the economic position and social status of about seven lakh families or 37 to 38 lakh persons in the province through the sale of their tangible assets such as land, plough, cattle, jewellery, utensils, tools and implements and 3.5 lakh families were reduced to destitution. According to one calculation, during the period 1943 to 1946 between 3.4 and 3.8 million people died as a result of the famine and the epidemic diseases that accompanied it.
With that midis, Zainul Abedin started a new paint series named "Famines". Where he painted more than 15 paintings. And this painting is one of them painted on the middle of 1943 also named as " Famine". He used watercolor to paint this painting.
Actually he became well known since the last of 1943 or the begining of 1944 through his this series of paintings depicting some of the great famines in Bengal during its British colonial period.
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