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By Dr. Asoka de Zoysa

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How does one brainstorm what the Buddha absolutely looked like? What were Mara’s three daughters wearing, aback they came to attract the Buddha? How did King Sri Sanghabodhi arise to his bodies in Anuradhapura in the 3rd aeon ? We would generally accept to accredit the annal in the Buddhist angel house, puppets arranged up in the puppeteers boxes and the discoloured apparel abaft the arenaceous bottle panes in our National Museums.

Paintings, cartoon and sketches for theatre apparel and sets by Somabandu Vidyapathy apparent at the Goethe Institute Colombo shows to what extent, our avant-garde apparel designers for stage, blur and TV accept been afflicted by this artisan aback creating the actual past. This exhibition is the best cogent addition to the project, “Archive Fever” in the additional affair of “The Colombo Ball Platform 2012”. It was organised by the Goethe Institute and curated by the acclaimed Artistic Director Ong Keng Sen. �The exhibition was different in abounding ways.

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Seldom has an art exhibition showcased theatre sets and costumes. The annal preserved by his ancestors is a athenaeum that annal some milestones in Sri Lanka’s Ball History. Judging by the aerial affection of paintings and drawings, the minute executions advantageous abundant absorption to detail and acute colours and tones, this annal able-bodied deserves a acceptable annotated publication.

Those who accept been advantageous to see Chitrasena’s Karadiya Nalapamayanti (1963), Gini Hora (1968) as able-bodied as creations by Premakumara Epitawela, Panibharata, Shesha Palihakkara, Wasantha Kumar and W. B. Makololuwa, would be able alarm up the angel of the appearance on date from his or her beheld memory. Others would apprehension that Somabandu Vidyapathy’s apparel accept been appointed by after apparel designers, alike today. The massive set for the accessible air assembly of Makuloluwa’s “Mahaveli Ballet” in 1968 and the apparel created for the demon “Ratakhyasa” and “Sirisanghabo” for the actual re-opening of the Tower Hall with John de Silva’s comedy Sirisanghabo in 1978 accept entered the Accompaniment Annal through the photographs. A ample allotment of the exhibition was adherent to the apparel and sets created for Guru Chitrasena; the abutting affiliation of the two families is noticeable.

The sources of afflatus for the apparel alter aback Somabandu Vidyapathy designs apparel for Oedipus (1987), Macbeth (1986), Romeo and Juliet (1988) and the Swan’s apparel for Nala Damayanti (1963) demography afflatus from western theatre and ballet and axis to the Buddhist temple or boob abstracts aback creating for “Sirisangabo” (1978) or belief ritual apparel from the southern arena of Sri Lanka aback creating the god “Devol” (1986).

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“The Pan Indian influence” appearing from the training at Shantineketan in the heyday of Rabindranath Tagore makes the abstracts assuming Sri Lankans arise a allotment of the greater Indian tradition, but to actualize the gods in “Shiva Ranga” (1985) he turns to the South Indian Chola Bronzes. As such, to the captious art historian some of the apparel may arise as an attack to historicize. Somabandu’s backdrops or architecture for the psychodrama reflect the Zeitgeist of anniversary time: Some of the sets and apparel assume to accept been aggressive by the aboriginal 20th aeon adorning art and apparel architecture of the west aptitude abroad from accuracy into abstraction. In this process, some of the sets assume to booty afflatus from the expressionist theatre of Germany or alike from activated films like Walt Disney’s “Fantasia” . In this affectionate of analyze of styles and traditions one sees that the artisan is not carefully afterward the calendar of Nation Builders, alike if he was in abounding occasions arrive to accord to accompaniment sponsored projects.

When Vajira appeared as the arch swan in “Nala Damayanthi” and in “Karadiya” and Chitrasena and Vajira danced the “spider” and “fly” in advanced of the behemothic web adjoin the accomplishments of an abstruse cosmos in “Karadiya”, the Sri Lankan Mudra natya was born. English speaking critics called this new appearance of Ball Ball “Oriental Ballet”. Somabadu’s addition at this actual moment cannot be ignored.

One may additionally bethink that Somabandu Vdhyapathy abounding in a abandoned during these aboriginal aerial of Sinhala drama. Ediriweera Sarachchadra’s accomplishments for his plays were mostly the atramentous curtain. To actualize cities, palaces or forests on stage, Somabandu did not go aback to acrylic the angle bedeviled naturalistic “Cittra-Pata” or aback bolt alien by the artists such as Henricus and Sarlis but resorted to a added all-embracing appearance of geometric abstraction.

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I was abreast that this exhibition showed aloof a baby alternative of works by Somabandu Vidhapathy and that added works are in clandestine archives. Hopefully, lovers of ball and art will be able to appearance a attendant of this massive annal in the abreast approaching advantageous accolade to a abundant artist. A tip for those who absent the exhibition: Visit the angel abode of the Bellanwila Raja Maha Viharaya on a quiet evening. On the walls of the ambulant you could see how Somabandu Vidyapathy absurd the Buddha and recreated the activity styles of age-old India. They are admired by hundreds of admirers daily, acceptable a accurate active archive.

(The biographer is a academician at the University of Kelaniya)

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