Abstract art: Beyond human reach
It can be said that art is portraiture of the spontaneous expression of human minds, our surroundings and our co-existence with the nature. It can be expressed through writing painting engraving etc. In ancient age, painting -- a branch of visual art -- was restrained to drawing of nature and beauty of male and female figures. Afterwards the advent of camera has given birth to abstract art, which uses forms having no direct reference to external, or perceived reality; it usually deals with human mind and thoughts on our interaction with various things in our surroundings in allegorical form. Now-a-days we find a trend among our modern artists to be interested more in abstract art, which is in most of the cases very hard for the common people to comprehend. Many of us while watching paintings in art exhibitions express doubt that the painter has paid much thought in his creation. In those exhibitions we need the artist himself to make out the true inner meaning of the art. If art is for the common people then why it's beyond our realisation, why we have to go through a costly art appreciation course to comprehend this? Why our modern artists don't clarify their expressions for us as did our pathfinder Zainul Abedin in making a vivid picture of famine, as did Kamrul Hasan to ignite hatred in our mind for the war criminals?
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