Reflections of Violence and International Policy in Modern Abstract Painting of Nepal: an Unsolved Question

Since the new libertarian and democratic ideologies typical of the West arrived in Nepal through India, the Nepalese society experienced a series of changes that were unavoidably reflected in a new artistic wave.  The Nepalese painters adopted the Western styles -particularly realism and, from the f...

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Main Author: Andrea de la Rubia
Format: article
Language:EN
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Published: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2016
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/e9a6bc9a31e249e9b2801f202eeb0d27
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Summary:Since the new libertarian and democratic ideologies typical of the West arrived in Nepal through India, the Nepalese society experienced a series of changes that were unavoidably reflected in a new artistic wave.  The Nepalese painters adopted the Western styles -particularly realism and, from the fifties, abstraction- as innovative mediums to represent the environment of violence, in a century characterized by the revolution, subversion and general discomfort in the country