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The pioneer of Bangladeshi modern art, Zainul Abedin was born in Kishoregonj on 29 December, 1914. He was a great artist of Bangladesh. He is widely acclaimed for his Bengal Famine Sketches. Through a series of sketches, he showed the harsh famine of 1940 and its sinister face through the skeletal figures of the people destined to die from starvation. He depicted these extremely shocking pictures with human compassion. He produced a series of brush and ink drawing which later became iconic images of human sufferings. He graduated from Government Art College and became first class first. He is also considered the founding father of art. For his outstanding talent in art, he is referred to as "Shilpacharya". He founded Zainul Abedin Shangrahashala in Mymensingh.

Complete the following table with the information given in the passage.

Who/WhatEvent/InformationWhere/ WhatWhen/How
(i) ____was bornKishoregonj1914
The faminebroke out(ii) ____1940
(iii) ____is calledShilpacharya
(iv) ____was foundedin Mymensinghin his life time
(v) ____showed the harsh famine of 1940 and its sinister face

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(i) Zainul Abedin;

(ii) in Bengal;

(iii) Zainul Abedin;

(iv) Zainul Abedin Shangrahashala;

(v) A series of Sketches.

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