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brought upon by evil forces during the post-war era. In order to unmask the real
identity of this evil force, he began to search for symbolic representation. In this
manner various animals occupied his pictures as symbols of evil.
The success of Quamrul Hassan’s experimentation done throughout the previous three
decades reached its peak in works done in the 80s. In this decade he endeavored to
present his own thoughts and perceptions in its many details through countless
drawings. The combination of the folk tradition with the Cubist style, the unification
of woman and nature, romanticism, churning the sea of folk art and incorporating its
essence into his own art, the symbolization of evil forces and depicting human life,
nature and animals in unison in his pictorial representation by which he created an
imaginative form of welbeing etc. all of these trends converged at a single point in this
decade and gave his creations deeper meaning.

Translated by Sanjida Shaheed, Student, MFA, Institute of Fine Art, University of Dhaka