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Articles tagged with #painting
The house of Chitrakars
Their profession is their surname. Three generations of Chitrakars have devoted their lives to studying, practicing, and refining Nepali art. At…
Muses of the mountains
Lambe. All photos: BHARAT RAI.Bharat Rai's ongoing exhibition ‘Whistle Blower’ at Ekantakuna's Wind Horse Gallery is a quasi-surreal take on the…
The anatomy of a flower
"I can’t help myself when I see flowers,” says botanical artist and illustrator Neera Joshi. “ I have to paint them.”Outside her studio, the…
A Single Brushstroke
Photos: JEROME EDOUJerome Edou’s monochrome ink exhibition A Single Brushstroke marks the first physical exhibition at Siddhartha Art Gallery in…
Nepal's history through art
Rediscovering the Victorian-era paintings of Kathmandu by early British and Nepali artists
An antelope and an artist
Puneeta Sharma working on the restoration of the 160-year-old water colour on paper painting by Rajman Singh Chitrakar of a Tibetan antelope at…
Hearing for the deaf, seeing for the blind
Sarah Yonzan Giri never intended to become a sign-language expert. The wife of Nepal’s famous Panchayat-era prime minister, she was living in…
Portraying portraiture at Taragaon
The visitor to the Taragaon Museum is surrounded by faces: from large, realistic examinations of elderly men and women to symbolic portraits in…
God and Superman
Photo: TARAGAON MESUEMSurrounded by overwhelmingly large ‘Sale’ signs is a tiny object in a large hall. Ang Tsherin Sherpa’s golden statue of a…
Continuum
Pic: GG Machaan / facebookArtist Sunita Rana’s imaginary locations transfer the viewer to a dream world: ethereal light shines through trees…
Lost in Transition
Though the medium is oil on canvas, Mann Gurung employs only sepia tones in his paintings, evoking the era of old photographs. Indeed, his…
Art and photography
On the ground floor were photos from the Karnali corridor by Nabin Baral and Ramesh Bhushal, the result of a 44-day journey from the origins of…
Etched in our memory
Saurganga Darshandhari with her painting. Photos: Prakriti Kandel Saurganga Darshandhari’s Stories is a collection of etchings inspired by…
Nepal Art Now in Vienna
Paintings of the Nepal Art Now Exhibition are in pre-display at Nepal Art Council for the next two weeks before being taken to Welt Museum in…
The craft of art
A painting by Ang TsherinThere used to be a time when Tibetan devotional art meant murals and thangkas. Not anymore. An internationally-renowned…
Ocean to mountains
Ask any Nepali about Ireland, and most have no idea where it is and some may mention the Irish pubs in Lukla, Thamel or Pokhara. Ask a person on…
A Miracle in Manhattan
It was a miserable July 4 weekend calling every cab company to see if anyone had found the precious watercolours
Old art meets new
In the land of magnificent traditional artforms like Paubha and Thanka, some connoisseurs may not even know about Nepal’s burgeoning…