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{{about|the Bangladeshi artist|the Bangladeshi actor|Saifuddin Ahmed}}<br />
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| name = Safiuddin Ahmed<br />
| image = Safiuddin Ahmed's photograph.jpg<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1922|06|23}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Calcutta]], [[Bengal Presidency]], British India<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2012|05|20|1922|06|23}}<br />
| death_place = [[Dhaka]], Bangladesh<br />
| occupation = Artist<br />
| alma_mater = [[Government College of Art & Craft|Government School of Art]]<br />
| awards = {{unbulleted list|[[Independence Day Award]] (1996)|[[Ekushey Padak]] (1978)}}<br />
|}}<br />
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'''Safiuddin Ahmed''' (23 June 1922 – 20 May 2012) was a Bangladeshi artist.<ref name="Curtain falls on Safiuddin Ahmed">{{cite news |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=235067 |title=Curtain falls on Safiuddin Ahmed |work=The Daily Star |date=21 May 2012 |access-date=28 May 2022}}</ref> He was awarded [[Ekushey Padak]] in 1978 and [[Independence Day Award]] in 1996 by the [[Government of Bangladesh]].<ref name=ekushey>{{cite news|url= http://www.moca.gov.bd/site/page/c706da0c-29ee-4f0f-95d9-fa6705e19001/|script-title=bn:একুশে পদকপ্রাপ্ত সুধীবৃন্দ|access-date=23 August 2017|publisher=Government of Bangladesh|language=bn|trans-title=Ekushey Padak winners list}}</ref><ref name=indepen>{{cite web|url=http://brri.portal.gov.bd/sites/default/files/files/brri.portal.gov.bd/page/87944ec4_496e_415d_af37_27a10fb35625/Independence%20Day%20Award.pdf|title=Independence Day Award|access-date=23 September 2016|publisher=Government of Bangladesh}}</ref><br />
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== Family ==<br />
[[File:Young Safiuddin Ahmed.jpg|thumb|right|Ahmed in Calcutta Government School of Art in the 1930s]] <br />
Ahmed was born on 23 June 1922, in [[Bhowanipore|Bhabanipur]], [[Kolkata]].<ref name=purist>{{Cite news |url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/magazine/2008/07/01/cover.htm|title=A Purist's Journey|newspaper=The Daily Star|access-date=9 November 2017|date=4 July 2007|first=Aasha|last=Amin}}</ref> His father, Matinuddin Ahmed, was a sub-registrar in the land office of the Government of Bengal and his mother, Bibi Jamila Khatun, was a housewife. Three generations of his family had lived in their paternal homestead in Bhabanipur. Ahmad's paternal grandfather, Aminuddin Ahmed, was a popular doctor in Bhabanipur. Aminuddin Ahmed was known as "Bachu Daktar" by the local residents. The road in front of his house was named "Bachu Daktar Lane" after Aminuddin Ahmed's death under the initiative of the "Kolkata municipality". Ahmed's father died when he was young. Bhabanipur was adjacent to shahebpara chaurangi. although people from different provinces lived in this area,majority of the inhabitants were culturally conscious Bengali Hindus and Muslims. Baliganj of south Kolkata was then in the suburbs, populated sparsely.<br />
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== Education ==<br />
Ahmed has studied art at [[Government College of Art & Craft|Calcutta Government School of Art]] in 1936.<ref name=purist/> Ahmed came into proximity with many people while studying in the art school from 1930 to 1942 as he practiced painting nature studies and landscapes and went to draw people with the students to the bank of the Ganges, the zoo and the Sealdah station, likewise he want to studio in the home of the teacher prohlad, which always had its door open to visitors, was also frequented by [[Dilip Dasgupta]], [[Zainul Abedin]] and others. This means, Ahmed was one of those who spent most of the hours of the day practicing art, through studies outside the school and in prohlad's studio. Other than this, as students they regularly went to the Radha area at the western border of Bengal to Birbhum and the adjacent dumka area of Jharkhand. The everyday life of the santals of that area, the dry landscape, vegetation, slowly flowing rivers, sky, horizons of Radha have repeatedly appeared as subjects of paintings and prints done during his student life. The second world war started in Europe in 1939. In 1958 he completed the diploma courses in printmaking from the [[Central School of Arts and Crafts]] in London with distinction.{{citation needed|date=October 2022}}<br />
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== Career ==<br />
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Ahmed was the pioneer of [[printmaking]] in Bangladesh. He, along with [[Zainul Abedin]] and others, played an important role in the foundation of the Dhaka Art College (now the Faculty of Fine Arts of [[Dhaka University]].<ref>[http://www.thedailystar.net/2007/06/23/d706231404105.htm Artist Safiuddin Ahmed's 85th birth anniversary today] ''The Daily Star'', 23 June 2007</ref>).<br />
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He was employed in Prahlad Karmarkar's studio. In one early painting there, he departed from pure narration to add his own perception and variation in the etching. Ramendranath chakravorty as a teacher of printmaking as a creative art form. Inspired by them, Ahmed learned the techniques of printmaking along with painting. Even in the mid-twentieth century, printmaking was not considered a mainstream medium in the [[Indian subcontinent|subcontinent]]. Even now in the [[Government College of Art & Craft]] in [[Kolkata]] at the bachelor's degree level, printmaking is taught as a subject painting. The print making medium was not at that time among the mainstream media like painting and sculpture and one of Ahmed's greatest achievements is that he helped raise this discipline of apparently secondary importance by adopting it as the main medium for his creative works and assisted it to reach a status equal to that of painting and sculpture. While living in Kolkata, the life of indigenous santals, give him inspiration to draw various paintings. But after coming back to [[East Pakistan]] the look, posture and the environment of his picture changed. "Empty basket", lemonade stand (pl.8.15) painted in oil colors in 1952 are quite perceptibly pictures of East Pakistan. The two painting : “Fishing" and "carpenter" done between 1954 and 1956 deserve special mention for two reasons. In these two paintings we notice that he has tried to experiment with shapes more than in his landscape which are composed with the combination of light and shade. The color of these two paintings are strongly flat, the edges or contours of the forms subjective exaggeration has been resorted to rather than attempting to remain faithful to pictorially reconstruct the visual world in his own way. As a result, from this period his paintings gradually started to move towards abstraction. In 1958 he completed the diploma course in printmaking from the [[Central School of Art and Design]] in [[London]] with distinction from 1956 to 1974. He visited different galleries of [[England]], [[France]], [[Italy]], [[Germany]], [[Belgium]], [[Netherlands]], [[Switzerland]], [[Soviet Union]] and [[India]]. {{Citation needed|reason=Reliable source needed for the whole section|date=March 2021}}<br />
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Ahmed helped raise the profile of a printmaking, a discipline often considered of secondary importance, by adopting it as his main medium. He inspired many other artists from the subcontinent to begin printmaking.<br />
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Though Ahmed had been born and brought up in the city, he selected the landscape and life of the people in particularly remote areas of Radha Vangaand Jharkhand as the setting of his works.<br />
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In the oil paintings ''Sunlit Hut'', ''Dumka-1'', ''Dumka-2'' and ''Dumka ShalForest'' done in 1946, he applied the pigment in strokes like the [[Impressionists]]; and did not create [[sfumato]] by mixing paints.<br />
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==Gallery of works==<br />
<gallery widths="150" heights="200" perrow="4"><br />
File:On the way to the fair.jpg|''On the way to the fair'', 1947<br />
File:Boat and Tree.jpg|''Boat and Tree'', 1966<br />
File:Composition Safiuddin.jpg|''Composition'', 1958<br />
File:Fishing Safiuddin.jpg|''Fishing'', 1950<br />
File:Views of Santiniketan.jpg|Santiniketan, 1945<br />
File:Views of Santiniketan2.jpg|Santiniekta, 1945<br />
File:A bookstall in Paris.jpg|''A bookstall in Paris'', 1960<br />
File:Dumka.jpg|''Dumka'', 1945<br />
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== Death ==<br />
[[Image:Safiuddin Ahmed Tomb.jpg|thumb|Ahmed buried beside the central mosque of the [[University of Dhaka]]]]<br />
Ahmed died at Square Hospital in Dhaka on 20 May 2012.<ref name="Curtain falls on Safiuddin Ahmed"/><br />
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== References ==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* "Safiuddin Ahmed: Great Masters of Bangladesh" by Rosa Maria Falvo<br />
* {{Cite news|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/arts-entertainment/safiuddin-ahmed-legend-prints-1244008|title=Safiuddin Ahmed A legend of prints|date=23 June 2016|work=The Daily Star|access-date=12 November 2022}}<br />
* {{Cite news|url=http://www.dhakacourier.com.bd/safiuddin-ahmed-a-purist-artist-2/|title=Safiuddin Ahmed: A Purist Artist|work=Dhaka Courier|access-date=12 November 2022}}<br />
* {{cite book|title=Art and Crafts|url={{google books |plainurl=y |id=irORPgAACAAJ}}|year=2007|publisher=Asiatic Society of Bangladesh }}<br />
* Official [https://safiuddinahmed.com Website]<br />
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