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Creative Thought
The Paintings reflect various facets of society
By KABI ADHIKARI
With the objective of conserving and promoting Nepalese art and culture, Rising Artists’ Group (RAG) has organized the first painting exhibition where 39 different colorful creations have been put up at the wall of Nepal Art Council, Babarmahal.
The paintings exhibited by three young artists, cover a wide range of content and style. While artist Roshan Bhandari from Nawalparasi has painted Buddha, Bell , Evening, Mother's Waiting, Love Winner, Ganesh etc; Prakash Poudel, from Chitawan, another young artist, has especially focused on landscape, nature, freedom, creation, daily life, harmony, freedom, etc.
Likewise, Santosh Dhital from Nijgadh, Bara has painted varieties of pictures including Kathmandu street , happiness, landscapes, mountains (himal), potter, harmony, image etc.
Although the styles of projections differ from each other, most of the creations have same name and they appear to be longing for peace, harmony, religion and love.
Artists Poudel and Bhandari both have painted the picture of Lord Ganesh – but both of their creations have symbolic meaning. The Ganesh made by Bhandari is decorated by shells, the one made by Poudel draw help from leaves. Poudel, in a symbolic gesture, also puts his Ganesh atop the hill of Swayambhunath.
On the other hand, Dhital has given more emphasis on the day to day life of public. Streets of Kathmandu , potters, happiness, and himal depict the real picture of society from the perspective of mundane day-to-day life.
When asked why very few people come to the exhibition, they said, "Still people do not realize the importance of paintings. They are ready to spend their money in any other field of entertainment rather than on paintings though they themselves are very creative."
Being very young artists, all three of them seem energetic and emotive. Through paintings they all have attempted to expose their innermost emotions and feelings.
The trio had been planning to organize the joint exhibition annually. They plan to organize the next exhibition based on the main theme of female education and racial discrimination followed by the one on the plight of street children the next year.
They also want to use the money raised from selling their paintings in favor of street children and orphaned children while organizing their next exhibition. The current exhibition is on till 26 th of July.
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