Rama Adhikari, TGT
Kathmandu, 21 July
Veteran artist Uttam Nepali has passed away. According to reliable sources, artist Nepali breathed his last at TU Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu on Wednesday at 4.30 am. He was 84.
Artist Nepali was born in Kathmandu in 1937 to father Bishnu Prasad Karmacharya and mother Ratna Devi Karmacharya. His grandparents have a business of their own in Lucknow, India. However, art was their real identity. They were included towards high-order painting, based on serious mental contemplations. In them, they created a world different form the visible world. They made different forms and structures of abstract art. They have several images of mysteries and their combinations.
Nepali is also a lyricist and actor. He is also a patron of music. In 2004, his poetry collection Uttam Nepalika Kavitharu was published. He was elegant artist who sometimes wove others’ poetry in his painting, and some other times drew portraits of poets.
Artist Nepali is credited for introducing the art of incorporating poetry in painting and making the portrait of the poet on the canvas. In 1976, it was Mr. Nepali who pioneered a different experiment by organizing an exhibition of paintings with poetry and poets reflected on the canvas.
Artist Uttam Nepali considered it a Kala-Samadhi, the higher order of artistic elegance. He once said, “The bliss that comes after accomplishing a painting and a piece of writing is the same. Their mediums or subject maybe different. In fact, this difference is not a difference per say. Rather, it is a mutual consonance among subjects. Literature and painting cannot stay separated from each other. The aim of my creations is to make them united.”