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Abstract Birendra Prataph began painting in the 70s, at a time when Nepal was still in the process of waking up to the shock of modernity. The country, which had been isolated for a hundred years (1850-1950), was suddenly immersed in a speed process of modernisation. Birendra´s career encompassed basically all the creative tendencies usually focused on the ​​"Nepaliness" idea and its national representation, in accordance with the policy of the Panchayat system. It is through the analysis of his artworks that this article reviews the most recent Nepalese art history, introducing its different movements and the local artists who led them. It is based on the hypothesis that despite the patriotic suitability of these paintings, they must also be analyzed from the perspective of the Nepalese irony. For it is by using satire that the artists of Birendra's generation reveal the political, ecological, and social reality of the Himalayan country in the contemporary times.

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