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art Some examples of Lok Chitrakar’s beautiful paintings. Each work is finished to the minutest detail and the care taken is really extraordinary besides being time consuming. 16 NOV-DEC 2005 SPACES
ut of course this is only one of the reasons for his satisfaction at taking to the art at the early age of twelve. As he says, “When I started, Pauwa was not valued as an art and the work was more of a chore but nowadays there is greater appreciation of Pauwa painting as an art form and this makes me happy.” His happiness is all the greater because he was able to carry on even through those hard times, times in which many others became frustrated and left the vocation. Lok Chitrakar has a ten year old son and a daughter who is 15 years old. His own father passed away when he was still very young. An only son, Chitrakar was born in 1961. He has two elder and two younger sisters. Lok has participated in numerous exhibitions here and abroad and has won a number of awards including Best Artist Award in 1993 presented by Handicraft Association of Nepal. And even if self taught, he has taken short courses in Finland and participated in workshops in Japan, Finland and the United States. Lok Chitrakar’s works can be seen in the Mohatta Palace Museum in Karachi; the Kemi Museum of Arts in Kemi, Finland; the Shouji Temple in Saitama, Japan; the Museum Kanzouin in Tokyo and the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum in Japan. His works also have been collected by various private collectors all over the globe. The starting point of Pauwa painting is the making of the canvas which is referred to as ‘Patbhumibandhan’. The white canvas is stretched on a wooden frame and rubbed with ‘kamaro’ (white clay) and ‘saras’ (buffalo hide glue). ‘Kamaro’ provides the colour that covers all the minute pores while ‘saras’ acts as the binding medium. Next come the colours. There are five basic colours: red, blue, yellow, white and black and all are mineral and vegetable based, Above: The beginning of the art itself is the fine free hand sketching by pencil. Each drawing is based on particular themes based on the religious texts. SPACES NOV-DEC 2005 17
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