neplese art and culture

Artist is a descriptive term applied to a person who engages in an activity deemed to be an art. An artist also may be defined unofficially, as, "a person who expresses themselves through a medium". The word also is used in a qualitative sense of, a person creative in, innovative in, or adept at, an artistic practice.An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art practicing the artsand/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only. The term is often used in the entertainment business, especially in a business context, for musicians and other performers (less often for actors). "Artiste" (the French for artist) is a variant used in English only in this context. Use of the term to describe writers, for example, is certainly valid, but less common, and mostly restricted to contexts like critism.
Kalidas Shrestha (born May 23. 1923) is a Nepalese artist, sculptor, social activist, and is the founding chairman of Kamala Memorial CommunityBangdel was born in 1919 in Darjeeling, India to a family from Eastern Nepal. He spent his youth in a Himalayan village and, later, graduated with a degree in Fine Arts from the Government College of Arts and Crafts in Calcutta in 1945. In 1952, he traveled to Europe where he studied art in Paris, associated with the likes of Pablo Picasso and George Braque and made a name for himself as an artist with his distinctive, non-traditional Nepalese style.
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Bangdel stayed in Europe until he was invited by the king to work in Nepal in 1961. From 1968-69, he was a Fulbright Professor at Denison University in Ohio and taught Nepali History of Art. He was elected to head the Royal Nepal Academy in 1972 and, during two terms, he dedicated himself to further research of Nepalese art and art history.
Service Center. He also founded Nepal Fine Arts College and was his first campus chief. He also serves as an honorable member of Nepal Academy (then Royal Nepal Academy). He is considered as one of the greatest artists of Nepal, and perhaps South Asia.