Newa art[1] is the art form practiced over centuries by Newa people.

than representing external were other pioneer artists

who introduced modern style paintings incorporating concepts of
lighting and perspective
as Nepali culture despite the fact that we can only
find
the sculptures of, the travelogue of the seventh

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 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]

As Nepali art developed, it crossed a number of

stages. We can find the shift from religious to
secular, objective to subjective, external to
internal, others to self, referential to abstract and
so on. Earliest arts and architectures were
symbolic. They depicted something but signified
something else. They have didactic values, that is,
they teach moral lessons. As they are religious,
they are mystical and magical. The deities and
human figures always have youthful body even in
death bed. The artworks are anthropomorphic in
the sense that even the divinities are in human
form and express human emotions. The early
forms of Nepali paintings are manuscript
illumination, paubha, mandala, pata (narrative
scroll painting) and wall painting. Pagoda temple,
Shikhara style temple, stupa and monastery were
the examples of architecture.