7. July 2014

art
didactic aspects. Use of mythical and
supernatural elements makes the
works strange and unusual.The images
suggest something beyond themselves.
The sculptures are in various mediums
as woodcarving, stone carving, clay
modeling, bronze, metal casting and
assembled sculptures.
The contemporary sculptures and
paintings are more subjective than
the traditional ones, for they express
the inner feelings and emotions of
the artists rather than representing
the external objects realistically.
Contemporary arts do not reproduce the
reality rather they respond to their own
context. There is the distance between
the objects in the world and images in
Modern Painting
by Asha Dangol
wall paintings and representation of
mythical divinities in realistic forms.
Manuscript illumination includes
both visual and verbal elements. The
texts and paintings coexist together.
Paubhas and mandalas can be taken
as the instrument of meditation and
concentration for the achievement of
enlightenment and nirvana. The principal
divinity is located at the center and
subsidiary deities are in the periphery
around the central figure. As we
observe the mandalas, our eyes move
from periphery toward center and
become stable at the central divinity.
The individual viewer is supposed to
be united with the almighty dissolving
the duality between the self and the
other. Moreover, some paubhas also
reconcile sacred and profane elements,
for the images of divinities are in sexual
union suggesting the union of Prakriti
and Purusa, male and female principles,
the individual sadhaka and the almighty.
Traditional sculptures and paintings
have magical, mystical, symbolic and
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