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Thakur Prasad Mainali (born 1934), sculptor, educator; chief of arts and craft department of the Royal Nepal Academy; Kiran Manandhar (born 1957), painter; founding chancellor of the Nepal Academy of Fine Arts; Chandra Man Singh Maskey (1900–1984), painter, and illustrator; early 20th century leader in the development of Nepali contemporary art
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Nepal Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) is the umbrella organization of Nepali artists, researchers and art critics, and an arts institution for research and for exhibitions. [1] A museum in Kathmandu , in a neoclassical building from the 1930s, [ 2 ] presents collections of both traditional and contemporary paintings and other works.
Nepalese paintings believed to have embraced western influences after 1850 with a work of Bhajuman [Chitrakar], a traditional artist who became acquainted with western Realism after visiting Europe. Bhajuman, also known as Bhajumacha Chitrakar, was a court painter of Jung Bahadur Rana , who visited Europe in 1850 after becoming Prime Minister ...
As a sculptor, he has exhibited his works at various art shows in Nepal and abroad. [10] [11] Mainali has been honored by various art organizations and the government of Nepal for his service to art community and cited by art historians, [12] art critics, [13] and his fellow artists as a pioneer of Nepali modern art. [14] [15]
These vocal artists are from the Nepal, Sikkim and Nepali-speaking regions of India, Bhutan; some belong to the immigrant population living abroad.
Bangdel was born in 1919 in Darjeeling, India to a family from Khotang district of Eastern Nepal.His father was Rangalal Rai, and his mother's name was Bimala Rai. [1] He spent his youth in a Himalayan village and, later, graduated with a degree in Fine Arts from the Government College of Arts and Crafts in Calcutta in 1945 with a first-class-first.