Mahmud and Taifur's digital display
Fayza Haq
The two digital artists, Mahmud and Taifur, whose works are on display at the Zainul Gallery, consider their paintings as experimental forms. Life can be explained in written words and here they are done within different frames. In Frame of life, childhood is represented in the green form in the work; the youth is depicted in yellow while the last years of life is depicted in rust. 'The painting, with the camera movement and different floating or interlocking motions stands for life,' says one of the artists Mahmudul Hasan. In the Nightmare, the computer-based paintings have used Cinema 4D of Maxon which gave the visual effect. The photoshop software gives other effects. Some of the paintings are 2D and some are 3D. They are to be seen at different angles and dimensions. The 3D has more depth. Mahmudul Hasan says that as architects they transform an area into a building form. With different plains different areas of space are created. The paintings express the feelings of those who work on the drawings, like the carpenters masons and painters. In The splendour of mechanised world the artist brings in the beauty of elements like the blue stainless steel. The architect has worked with forms of different planes. The black colour is there to bring in the infinity of space. The red and yellow bring in different planes. The sharp edges are to bring in the polished paints to give the effect of modern architecture as in granite and stainless steel. Frame of life, for instance, was first drawn on the computer. With form, colour and composition, it was converted into a completed framed image. In Binding of freedom we see four different frames being presented with an interweaving line of red going through them. The Nightmare creations similarly bring images of sharp lines that are put against each other and have curved lines going through them. Mahmud has done some realistic images too, such as Still life and Submerge which depict items that have been lying under water, have collected mud and rust and have then had light focused on them in an underwater search. He has then experimented with the surface of a wrecked car and worked with little areas, having highlighted them and having added images to them such as a portrait in a rectangle form. Tiny human forms have been added to geometrical shapes in Waiting. Taifur Rahman, who has graduated in Fine Arts, has chosen emotions from human life and presented them by taking pictures of different coloured light being thrown on to rippling water. In them one gets the effect of speed, rhythm, and cold feelings.
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