Artists and Art

11 February 2018, Sunday

by Anita Bhattarai

We learn a lot about art. We visit the Park Gallery and other places regularly. We have done exhibitions at the Nepal Art Council, Patan Museum, and have the Spiny Babbler Art Gallery downstairs. Pallav sir teaches us art, Surekha ma’am is our most recent art intern. She teaches us. Before that Tara Buba, a Portugese German shared some time with us.

Surekha ma’am continued what Pallav sir was doing with us. She wrote and researched different artists and explained about them in her class. The artists she shared with us are Morandi, Clemente, Francis Bacon, Leonardo da Vinci, Basquiat, Yayoi Kusama, Chagall, Frida Kahlo and Michelangelo. They are artists that paint in different styles of arts. They are some of the most famous artists. Surekha ma’am also practices art herself. She lives in the US and while in Nepal, she is learning the Paubha Newari art style.

After learning with her, we have made dolls, artwork using small circles, pencil work, pastel work and other experiments.