Pioneering art on the Internet
Bangladesh, however, had so far been absent from this strong medium of communication- until young artist Nazia Andaleeb Preema launched her own website recently. Addressed www.preema.net, the site presents the first ever virtual art exhibition in Bangladesh containing 35 art works by Preema.
Professor Jamilur Reza Chowdhury, Vice Chancellor of BRAC University, and eminent artist Abdus Satter, Director of the Fine Arts Department, Dhaka University, jointly inaugurated the exhibition.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. The exhibition contains photographs of Preema's art works done in watercolour, oil and pastel. Besides, Preema places some of her experimental digital art works that she has done on computer. 'I am interested in working in all the traditional media as well as the most modern one,' Preema says regarding her digital paintings.
Preema believes that the human mind, the power of imagination for that matter, has no boundaries. 'And the form of the mind is essentially abstract', she says. Preema's experimentation in art works, as a result, started with this abstractness. Most of her works in this virtual gallery are abstract.
Preema's website has four different links to the four different mediums of her works--oil, pastel, watercolour and digital. The link gallery gives an opportunity to view her works as if in a gallery. Besides, there is an e-mail link, which enables the viewers to contact her and send their opinions.