7. July 2014

art
Wall Painting
from Lumbini
the paintings. The images and colours
are distorted and altered to express
inner feelings. The figures have been
simplified using geometric shapes.
The unlimited numbers of shapes have
been represented in limited numbers.
The abstracts arts are free from external
reality. The form is its own content.
Such artworks attempt to address the
intangible aspects of the human beings.
As the artworks are subjective, the
meanings of the works seem to be
multiple. In some of the artworks, the
opposing images have been juxtaposed
with free association as in dream.
One image is melting into another;
the images have been displaced
and condensed as in metonymy and
metaphor.
Contemporary artworks seem to be
interconnected with various genres of
arts as paintings, literature, sculpture,
drama, architecture and music. The
boundaries between various art genres
have been blurred. Thus, they have intertextuality
and inter-art relationship. Some
of the artworks seem to be unfinished
and on the process of becoming,
thus, they are open-ended and plural.
Their meanings are not fixed, certain
and monolithic but always contingent,
uncertain, provisional and ever shifting.
These works carve multiple identities.
The meanings are relative to time, place
and person.
The handicrafts and folk arts make our
collective unconscious visible t. Our
june 2014 / 61