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Nepalese Painting or Nepali Painting begins with the religious paintings with Hindu and Buddhist subjects, almost all Newa art by the Newari people of the Kathmandu valley. These traditional paintings can be found in the form of either wall paintings, cloth paintings called paubha, or manuscripts. They used conservative technique, style, and ...
National Museum of Nepal. Kathmandu is home to a number of museums and art galleries, including the National Museum of Nepal and the Natural History Museum of Nepal. Nepals's art and architecture is a dazzling display from medieval to the present, which is a heady amalgamation of two of the ancient and greatest religions of the world – Hinduism and Buddhism.
Newar art [1] is the art form practiced over centuries by Newar people. The pictorial art consists of: Paubha [2] Wall paintings (murals) Paintings on the walls of temples; Paintings in manuscripts (books) Copper and brass sculptures; Stone sculptures; Wooden sculptures; Vasudhara Mandala, by Jasaraja Jirili, Nepal, dated 1365.
Madhubani art (also known as Mithila art) is a style of painting practiced in the Mithila region of India and Nepal. It is named after the Madhubani district of Bihar, India, which is where it originated. [1] Jitwarpur, Ranti and Rasidpur are the three most notable cities associated with the tradition and evolution of Madhubani art. [1]
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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The National Museum of Nepal is in the city of Kathmandu at a short distance from the stupa. The classical building of the museum is on the Western side of the river Vishnu against a hilly background. [2] Entering the museum, on the left is the Art Gallery displaying statues, wood carvings and paintings.
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.