internal, others to self, referential to abstract

and so on. Earliest arts and architectures

were symbolic. They depicted something but
signified figures

During the Rana regime, secular themes,

realism and oil colour replaced religious
themes, symbolism and home-made colours.
Instead of gods and goddesses, the portraits
of the Rana rulers and their family members
were executed. In this period, the art of
portrait reached to its climax in the history of
Nepali art. Landscape with hunting scenes
and still life paintings were also created.
Western Neoclassical architecture influenced
the Nepali architecture.

After the fall of the Rana regime and the

establishment of democracy in Nepal in 1951
A.D., many western. Gradually, Nepali artists
began to practice the techniques of
Impressionism, Fauvism, Expressionism,
Cubism, Dadaism, Abstractionism and
Surrealism. The art shifted from Realism to
Abstractionism, public to personal, objective
to subjective.  Nepali artists began to explore
their inner self rather than representing
external objects and events. shifted from
Realism to Abstractionism, public to personal,
objective to subjective.  Nepali artists began
to explore their inner self rather than
representing external objects and events.

Nepali artists are aware of their own tradition

and the novel trends in the world art. They
what they had learned, and hearing their own
inner voice, creating their own codes and
putting their own signature in subconscious
manner. Listening to oneself and expressing
in one’s own visual language is perhaps one
of the best ways of creating art.
Nepali art is as old as Nepali culture despite
the fact that we can only find the sculptures
of fourth century A.D., the point of time in
houses of Kathmandu valley despite the fact
that the earliest Nepali painting ever found is
the Prajnaparamita manuscript illumination.
Our culture is as old as our civilization, and
our art is a constituent part of our culture.
Our cultural rituals and festivals integrate a
number of arts as sculpture, music, painting,
performance and installation. At the then
time, art was not for art’s sake but for life. Art
had spiritual as well as pragmatic value. We
can find this trend, for instance, in Mithila art
even today.

Newar art is basically religious art. Newar have

learned the past and absorbed the
contemporary, now they are attempting to
unlearn the rules and formulae what they had
learned, and hearing their own inner voice,
creating their own codes and putting their own
signature in subconscious manner. Listening
to oneself and expressing in one’s own visual
language is perhaps one of the best ways of
creating art.devotional paubha painting,
sculpture and metal craftsmanship are world-
renowned for their exquisite beauty.[4]