Self and Tradition: A Case of Influence

Abstract

The thesis portrays history of Nepali painting by showing how it gets gradually influenced by the western tradition of painting. Different artists like Lain Singh Bangdel who comes under the banner of expressionism-a western movement. But he has his own way to paint in the same tradition. In the same way, artist N.B. Gurung, an emerging painter of Nepal, though having influenced by Bangdel, he follows the impressionist way of painting. So, beinginfluenced by other does not mean to copy one's tradition as it is. The case of influence is multi-dimensional and it crisscrosses individual style and schools in deterministic modes.