About Department of Oriental Art

DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL ART (1955) In 1948 Faculty of Fine Art (Former Institute of Fine Arts) established with only three departments under the leadership of Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin. In 1955 Department of Oriental Art established with some optimistic motivation. The objective of the Department of Oriental Art is to practice the glorious and rich traditional art of Asia to save and nurture the continuity of our own art trend, following the objective and ideal of Bengal School, which originated in opposition to western academic realism. The students of the Department of Oriental Art have been practicing art with great success since 1955. The students of this department synthesize modern Western and ...

Message from Chairman

Dr. Sushanta Kumar Adhikary