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Powerful Time The paintings by Mukesh Shrestha reflect the momentous time
By A CORRESPONDENT
The paintings by Mukesh Shrestha hanging on the walls of Nepal Art Council really portray the female characters exposing different moods, based on a single theme 'Mood of Time' with the medium of oil and acrylic on canvas.
Shrestha, who had revealed his talent in painting through group exhibition, has come out with a first solo exhibition 'Mood of Time' now.
He has captured different forms and colors in the twenty six paintings being exhibited at Nepal Art Council till 15 th July,2006 . The paintings done on the canvas with green, yellow, black, blue, and other colors give a soothing feeling to the viewers.
Shrestha's use of colors and forms has made some of the paintings come alive. They seem to be moving as though they are real women. Focused on female figure, his most paintings are related with the concreteness of women. The interpretation of his paintings is an interesting exercise as it portrays diverse characteristics of women.
His paintings themselves suggest that the mood depends upon time. Though the styles of projections differ from each other, most of the paintings seem to be influenced by female figures. On different moods, he has painted different paintings. Each paintings have their own importance so that the audience are bound to observe the paintings very closely. To select the paintings only as a subject of female figure is to take an easy way out. “Women have such power to tolerate everything within a moment, they suffer a lot and bear a lot of burden. That's why I keep female figure as a subject in every paintings," he said.
Shrestha is in the process to repeat same subject in future also. As a student of Lalitkala Campus, Shrestha has already completed his Bachelor level in 2004. He plans to pursue his further study in fine arts in Banaras Hindu University .
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