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Sri Lanka - Cart ( carring havey wight)
Sri Lanka Anicent ruins (Ruwanweli stupa & Tissawawe - Anuradhapura)

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L T P Manjusri

L.T.P. Manjusri -(Sri Lankan Artists)

Born in Aluthgama in 1902 ( Ceylon ), started life as an apprentice to a carpenter at the age of 10. Then as a companion to a relative, a ballad singer and then as an assistant in a shop. He entered the Buddhist monastic order in 1915 and by the age of twenty had earned a reputation as a scholar in Sinhala, Pali, Sanskrit and Buddhist philosophy.From 1932 to 1934 he studied Buddhist art at the Shantineketan ashram of Rabindranath Tagore in West Bengal. Returning to Ceylon he recommenced his life long work of copying and documenting temple paintings.In 1937 he studied Buddhist iconography and Tibetan art at Guntok on the Tibetan border.A founder member of the 43 group, inspired by the French surrealists his work was quite different from that of other members of the 43group. He broke away from this Group to follow his own style and ideals.Traveled and exhibited extensively on the Continent. The Smithsonian Institutions Traveling Exhibitions Service exhibited his work in the United States in 1979.Winner of the Ramon Magsaysay award in 1979 for journalism, literature and creative communication. Was conferred the degree of doctor of letters Honoris Causa, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.He passed away on the 16th of July 1982.Manjusri had published both in Sinhala and English bringing to public knowledge the ancient and mediaeval art of Sri Lanka. Visiting vihares and temples he systematically documented, reproduced and traced innumerable neglected and deteriorating temple Paintings.

George Keyt - (Sri Lankan Artists)

Keyt (1901–1993) was born in Sri Lanka (Ceylon) and educated at Trinity College (Kandy), an elite colonial school in the British public school tradition. Stemming from Indo-Dutch origins, Keyt gave much time from an early age to drawing and the study of art, and developed a consuming passion for books and reading.
The spell of the ancient hill capital and its Buddhist aura soon came to exercise a powerful and lasting influence and was to provide both the literary and artistic stimulus living so close to the Malwatte Vihare. He became greatly drawn towards Buddhism and championed the cause of the Buddhist revival. He wrote profusely in both prose and verse.
The young painter also began to turn his back on the values of the westernized milieu of the class into which he was born.
His explorations in Hindu mythology and Indian literature led him to close links with the cultural life of India, where he lived for long and short periods from 1939 right up to the late seventies. To the Sri Lankan Buddhist source were now added the compelling imagery of Hindu myth and legend as vital influences.
A meeting with Rabindranath Tagore in the 1930s in Ceylon left a lasting impression.
Many exhibitions of his work have also been held in India, London and other European and American centers. His pictures are to be found in various museums and galleries abroad, as well as in private collections in Sri Lanka and throughout the world.
His fame as a painter has obscured his significance as a poet; not so well known, therefore, is the fact that he was one of the few poets of any stature in contemporary Sri Lanka.

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