Lok Chitrakar is one of the most prominent Paubha painters in Nepal today. Self-taught, he is also an educator whose e forts are keeping this ancient artistic lineage alive. Employing one of the most intricate painterly traditions, a Paubha artist can work for decades on a single large-scale painting and might hope to fnish only a few in one lifetime.
Made over the course of 15 years, this masterwork – depicting the Hindu deity Ganesh – is both inspired from and an ode to the 15th century artist Jivarama. Although little is known of the Paubha makers of yore, Chitrakar laboriously pulls together generations of knowledge in iconography, mineral pigments, and religious teachings to o fer a view of the patience and dedication required for this composition. While these artworks often become objects of religious or aesthetic reverence, they are rarely acknowledged for their contributions to Nepal’s historiographical, philosophical, and intellectual legacies. Chitrakar broadens the interpretation of Paubha to emphasise its potential as an epistemological medium fundamental to sustaining the intergenerational transfer of visual languages and traditions.
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