The
paintings of artist Lain Singh Bangdel are on exhibit at www.spinybabbler.org
until August end. Spiny Babbler is holding this exhibition on the
Internet to give people worldwide an opportunity to study the works
of an artist who has had a high profile presence on the Nepalese
art and literature scene.
According
to Para Limbu, chairperson of Spiny Babbler, though not launched
officially, the Spiny Babbler internet test site is now operational
and covers the live and works of many other writers and artists.
She
further said that Bangdel is the first person to hold a solo modern
art show featuring abstract images in Nepal (1962). He is respected
worldwide for his scholarly research and commands equal strature
as Mary Slusser, writer of the Nepal Mandala. In his youth
Bangdel worked in India with Satyajit Ray, Chittananda Das Gupta,
and Subash Ganguli. He went on to study art at Ecole Nationale Superieure
des Beauus Arts in Paris and met Pablo Picasso and Georges Brague.
Hussain, Padam Singh, and Krishna Reddy were among his contemporaries.
As
he was working in the United Kingdom, he was asked to come to Nepal
by B.P. Koirala, a close friend, and His Majesty King Mahendra.
When he came to Nepal, his career went well. He became vice-chancellor,
and later chancellor of the Royal Nepal Academy twice. He helped
make Nepal Association of Fine Arts secure. He is also the founder
of the Nepal Arts Council. His artwork has been exhibited worldwide
and his works have been subjects of study for Ph.D. scholars. Today
he is a healthy eighty-four. Many of the eight hundred plus visitors
to come to www.spinybabbler.org
over the past seven days have been highly appreciative of his creations
that range a period of forty years. |