Background
Shakoor was born on 31 December in 1947 in the Bogra district of Bangladesh.
Shakoor was born on 31 December in 1947 in the Bogra district of Bangladesh.
His work focuses on ancestral and historical themes, following in the folk-tradition of Zainul Abedin, Quamrul Hassan, Jamini Roy and Qayyum Chowdhury. Common themes in Shakoor"s paintings include Bengali folk motifs and ballads. The Mahua and Malua love stories as well as the Nakshi Kanthar Mathematics and the Maimansingha Gitika.
All of Shakoor"s compositions are bordered with free-flowing thick brush lines.
There is almost no hard line in the paintings. His style has been compared with European artists such as Piet Mondrian and Paul Klee.
He is chairman of the Craft Department in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Dhaka University.