Title: Portrait of a girl
Artist: Unknown
Date: 2014
Geography/Culture: Bangladesh/South Asia, Bengali.
Medium: Black color pencil on paper
Dimensions: Height: 16.5 in. Width: 11.7 in.
Classifications: Drawings
Source: Gift of Rezwanul Kabir, 2014
This is actually a drawing of me looking upwards to the viewer. This portrait was drawn by someone working at a small art shop named Q art. They make and sell artworks especially portraits of people and their beloved ones. There is a signature and date visible in lower right corner of the drawing which says Q art’ 14. This was a farewell gift from one my closest friends. He gave it to me when i was moving to United States of America from Bangladesh. It holds great personal and cultural value. The clothing I’m wearing in the drawing is a saree which is the national and most popular wear for both casual and formal occasions of Bangladeshi women. Even if i only wore it formally on certain occasions there but now that I moved here, I miss wearing it sometimes. Even if do wear it, there is no one to share it with which makes me miss my friends and country even more. This picture reminds me of my culture, my country and the people i left behind. John Cotton Dana states, “The collections were of very great value – consisting usually of originals which no money could replace, which should therefore be guarded with the utmost care” I feel exactly the same way about this artwork. I could leave this behind too but I didn’t. I carried it the whole way carefully so that the frame doesn’t break and ruin the picture only because it is so important to me in every way possible. It reminds me how much friendships value because it cannot be bought with money and how my friend went out of his way and gave me such a precious gift.
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