7. July 2014

art
In some of the artworks, the opposing images have been
juxtaposed. One image is melting into another; the images have
been displaced and condensed in metonymy and metaphor.
Nepali art represents the diverse
voices, themes and styles. Observing
artworks is getting inspiration and
encountering the gems and poetic
moments of Nepali artists.The artworks
range from traditional to modern, and
even to post modern. They are inclusive
in terms of art genres as sculpture,
painting, architecture, installation,
performance, video arts, new media arts
and alternative arts. They are diverse in
terms of themes as representation of
nature, recreating myths, reintegration
of cultural rituals, reformulation of
tradition, raising the voice of the
marginalized, the women, and the ethnic
minorities, taking corrective measures
on socio-political evils and carving
identities of individual artists. Multiple
images have been carved; multiple
melodies have been composed and
multiple colours are in harmony as in the
rainbow. Thus, Nepali art is a mosaic of
multiple voices. All the individual artists
have their own unique identities as their
artworks, yet, they have been connected
to each other as in the carnival.
The traditional paintings and sculptures
make the viewer aware about our
cultures, myths, rituals and our tradition.
The traditional paintings include
manuscript illumination, miniature
painting, paubha, mandala, patta chitra,
Fresco in Bhaktapur palace.
Photo Hemanta Shrestha
june 2014 / 59