Bangladeshi young visual artist Anika Roy delivered a special lecture on Rickshaw Painting at an event held at Kansas State University of Missouri in the United State of America.
The event titled 鈥榃ind of Wisdom: Dialogues in Landscape, Culture and Design鈥� was organised by the Student Chapter of National Association of Minority Landscape Architects of the university at Seaton Hall Room on October 20.
Andrew Gressett, an Associate Designer at SWA Group from Houston was the other featured speaker of the event.
Anika Roy, who studied BFA at the drawing and painting department of the University of Dhaka, analysed the artistic language and symbolism in rickshaw painting as a reflection of urban life and exploration of the relevance of contemporary and traditional visual narratives in the art forms for masses.
Her presentation titled 鈥楻ickshaw Painting: Illustration in Urban Landscape Representing Marginal Community鈥� also depicts how rickshaw art represents marginal communities within the sociocultural and economic contexts.
鈥楳ost of the Rickshaw painters are self-taught, working-class creators 鈥� men and women who turned the cheapest enamel paint into a national visual language but they have built the aesthetic of Bangladesh鈥檚 urban identity,鈥� said Anika.
In December 2023, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation declared rickshaws and rickshaw painting in Dhaka as an intangible cultural heritage.
