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Alvi’s formative years in the Government College of Art and Crafts in Dhaka, were spent under the tutelage of the distinguished painters and printmakers Mohammad Kibria and Safiuddin. A cultural exchange programme with the USA enabled Alvi to study printmaking under Michael Ponce-de-Leon. In 1983-84, he completed post graduate research under Naomi Asakur in Japan. He played an important part in the cultural movement of the sixties. Drawn into the vortex of political upheaval and the war of 1971, Alvi participated in the front lines and suffered in the hands of the Pakistan army. A deep identification with the land and the rivers shaped his unique style of abstraction. Abul Barq Alvi taught at the Faculty of Fine Art, University of Dhaka. |