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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 ...
Paubha painting showing Vishnu Mandala (15th century). Waumha Tara (Green Tara) A paubhā (Devanagari: पौभा) is a traditional religious painting made by the Newar people of Nepal. [1] Paubhas depict deities, mandalas or monuments, and are used to help the practitioners in meditation. The Tibetan equivalent is known as Thangka.
Traditional Newar art is basically religious art. Newar devotional paubha painting, sculpture and metal craftsmanship are world-renowned for their exquisite beauty. [ 4 ] The earliest dated paubha discovered so far is Vasudhara Mandala which was painted in 1365 AD ( Nepal Sambat 485). [ 5 ]
Sushma Shakya (born 1975), printmaker, illustrator, video artist, and installation artist Deepak Shimkhada (born 1945), Nepali-born painter, Asian art historian, educator, writer, and editor; based in California
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Mokha art of Tharus of Eastern Nepal. Mokha is a popular endemic art of Tharu community of eastern Nepal.The women, especially from Morang, Sunsari, Saptari, Siraha and Udayapur districts of eastern Nepal, decorate their mud walls with beautiful floral and geometric patterns including birds and animals.
Raj Man Singh was the first to apply the Western concepts of lighting and perspective, and is credited for the appearance of three-dimensional effects in Nepalese painting. [1] Scholars have described him as a pioneer in Nepalese art, although largely unknown until Brian Houghton Hodgson's tutelage.
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