Arts, Crafts And Entertainment

"Girls used to avoid me and try to hide from me," the dapper clean-shaven man reveals candidly. Even if so, he adds, "Those days were mine." There's no doubting his words. 'Abhinay Ratna', Gautam Ratna Bajracharya 'Tuladhar', in the middle 1970's, was one of the best-known faces in Nepali cinema.  He started his acting career as a villain in 'Kumari' and went on to do more villainous roles in fifteen other films, of which about five films are yet to be released.  The most recent film he has been signed on for is a Newari movie, 'Bala Maiju' that is to be screened shortly. In spite of his screen persona in the negative role, one can of course see that he is a gentleman in real life.

One would also think that the above would be enough to satisfy the creative urges of any man. But no, his visiting card today describes him as a 'Senior Cine Actor / Fine Artist / Painter' and the address below that is 'Gautam's Art Gallery, Baber Mahal Revisited'. The villain is an artist too, and his canvases speak volumes about the man's immense talent in fine arts.

On 16th October 2001, the villain / artist had a solo exhibition at the Nepal Art Council Gallery titled, 'Significant Dances of Nepal' and on 30th December 2003, another at the same venue titled, ' Waves of Nature'. About the first, he writes in the accompanying brochure, 'Dance is a form of cultural ornament of any country…' and goes on to describe various forms of Nepalese dance forms. He ends with '…so it is right time to think seriously for its preservation… I am going to exhibit 46 acrylic paintings representing different dances from Nepal.'  About the second, this is what the eminent artist / litterateur Bal Krishna Sama said, 'Gautam Ratna Tuladhar is the foremost among our folk dancers. I wish him all the best and hope he will be as successful in the field of painting. This is highly possible because a canvas is after all but a dance of colours.'

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Are you looking to spark your home interior with some good art paintings? These days, people simply want to add some of the most amazing paintings for their home décor so that the value for it can be raised to a paramount level. Well, it's not just about any painting available in the market! If you really want to raise the quality and level for your home décor, then it's the paintings from Agnex Agnes Pointier that can bring you enough good results. Adding the paintings from Agnex Agnes Pointier will not only add more values for your home décor but also these paintings can bring some kind of noble transformation for your life. You will start to feel much relaxed and worry free while looking at these paintings at the leisure hours.

It is true that you have visited many art galleries to checkout different art painting styles. Well, if you are a true lover and appreciated art painting works, then it's sure that you must have known Agnex Agnes Pointer. She is a famous French artist who has gifted some spectacular artworks to this world. Her paintings are really classical those offer different shades. Now day's these paintings are going high on demand at the ArtsCad. If you want to have some best collection of paintings that are painted on the basis of different shades and colors, then Agnex Agnes Pointier paintings can offer you more good results. All her painting comes with different style and design and color of her own creation. You can very easily get some of her work on the art galleries or you can search online at artscad.

People those have seen her painting works, admire that they are fine arts. Highly imaginative and blend with lots of creativity makes Agnex Agnes Pointer's artworks the most unique one. She gave her brush strokes on acrylic, acrylic resin on canvas, joining, mixed, mixed technique, moderated, oil, oil on canvas, vinyl and etc. Some of the topics that she followed are:

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Photography is graph of creativity, design and fine art capturing through the lens of camera and giving perfect and fine picture through the art of photography. Photography is technically relative aspect and in general we can say photography is used to capture present moments and store it in form of memories to recap the same in future.

The study of Photography is art capacious where all new technics makes their presence in market with its attractive features all the time. There are various types of photography like glamour photography, Photojournalism, Documentary Photograph, Action Photography, Aerial Photography, Macrophotography, Portraiture, Art Photography, Microphotography, Underwater Photography etc….Photographers can be of both combinations like professional and amateur photography. Amateur photographers generally interests in macrophotography, whereas the professional photographers are experts in photojournalism.

The style and techniques in photography always changes to the advancement and current standards. The Advanced Photo System refers to the part of 24mm film and this is the standard strategy for still photography. There are three types of Advanced Photo System film that are categorized in three different formats either as “H”, “C” or “p”. Where ‘H' refers to HDTV format, ‘C' refers to Classic format, and ‘P' refers to panoramic format. Except the occasional disposable camera, rest all APS cameras come under this category to record and shoot in each of these formats.

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Says Renu Modi, Director, Gallery Espace: “Anjana’s body of work gives voice to the trials and tribulations faced by those innocent victims caught in the midst of social, political and religious unrest and who have been displaced from their homes during these times of conflict in her large format canvases.”

Says Anjana Mehra: “PipeDreams is about an infinite search in our metropolises within the corrosive nature of technologiszed societies. It is about the eventual alienation caused by the accelerated pace of life in mechanized consumer cultures. PipeDreams is about that pot of gold which supposedly awaits us at the end of the rainbow.”

Deeply involved with the ruthless transience and violence of life, Anjana Mehra lets her work reflect the pain and grief of living. She paints dereliction and despair with the note of hope wrapping itself around the anxious structures and sundry materiality of building and industrial phenomena. Her canvases capture memories of smoke from mill chimneys which emits densely smoke through the pipe and tubular form, an animation similar to a graphic equalizer on a music consul, the geometric grids of high-rise buildings that have cropped up all over the city and a poetic offering that comes in the form of a small bouquet of wild flowers that are found growing out of the pipes and on the pavement.

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I met Ramesh Pateria for the first time in the late 60s when I visited his show in the Jehangir Art Gallery in Mumbai. There was an untamed animal quality about him. Badly shaved and with hair unkempt he looked like a hobo on the street. But his pieces of art were outstanding. They were marble pieces carved with precision with a strong hand into stunning sculptures. They were far from realistic figures of lifesized damsels intricately carved in white marble that we commonly encounter in gardens in Europe. Pateria’s bold sculptures were startlingly different. They were modern forms, striking images in 3 dimensions, most of them 3 to 4 feet in size. Some were smaller, just 1 foot tall and some were bigger measuring 6 feet or more in length. The line was clean and looked like a painting materialized into a solid shape in marble.

I asked him, “Why marble?”  He looked at my suited-and-booted appearance and smiled. “I like the material. It’s got lines and natural designs inside the rock. I take it as a challenge to bring out its inner beauty in my forms. Besides, marble is easy to work with.” He replied looking pleased that I was taking interest in his work. “Where do you find such beautiful marble rocks?” I asked him naively.

“You can find them in marble mines in Makrana in Rajasthan. You have to be there when the rock is being mined. Not all the pieces are interesting. The selection is easier at night when the cutting is being done under powerful lights which highlight the inner lines in the rock. I live in the mine like a common laborer in simple hut.” Pateria was candid with his explanation. His eyes were sparkling and he has a magnetic quality in his voice and gestures which overtook his shabby appearance. I liked him and his work. I bought one of the pieces.

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