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Exhibition at Alliance Francaise: Rickshaw
Painting in A New Light Born in 1939 in Dinajpur, Alinoor started his painting life in 1956. His father was a government officer and his mother was taking care of his four sisters and four brothers. When in secondary school until class 9, he always had the best mark in drawing. He developed his talent alone, until he met his master, Gulfam, in Dhaka at twenty years old. His master who has passed away, was a banner painter and film decorator. Alinoor came to rickshaw, bus, truck and babytaxi painting later to make a living when a rickshaw mistri discovered him. Alinoor is married (1965) and has 2 sons and 3 daughters. Manju, his son and Nasima, his daughter are continuing the rickshaw painting job. He was the first to introduce the format of the rickshaw plates, red on each side of the painting with the mistri name. His favourites are village and city scenes. He was one of the five masters that painted rickshaw plates before the independence of the country. It is the reason why the ...scenes depicting the liberation scenes and the father of the nation Bangabondu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman are so excellent. If it was not for the sake of bringing resources to his family, Alinoor would spend his time as a full-time painter rather than painting series of rickshaw plates: painting is his passion. Asked, what he will do when rickshaw will be phased out, he says that he has still some orders...that he will be able to sell.... But he expects that he will be able to sell his painting by doing exhibitions. Alliance Francaise de Dhaka discovered him when doing its research on rickshaw painting. Alinoor was the first to perceive the interest in this project and has been very instrumental in giving it momentum. |
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