What were the achievements of Zainul Abedin?
What role did Abedin play in the art movement in Bangladesh?
An artist of exceptional talent and international repute, Zainul Abedin played a pioneering role in the modern art movement in Bangladesh that began, by all accounts, with the setting up of the Government Institute of Arts and Crafts (now FFA, DU) in 1948 in Dhaka, of which he was the founding principal.