Painting: Confusions, Conflicts & Controversies
Painting & Composition Types Subjects, Topics & Types:
- Description
- Art Styles: Buddhist versus Bon art, Jonang, Bodong, etc.
- Block Print Sets
- Commodity:
--- Pilgrimage Art
--- Tourist art
--- Temple shop art
--- Decorative art
- Village Art
- Confused Visual Subjects
- Contemporary Traditional Art
- Consecration & De-consecration
- Controversial Art
- Copies & Facsimiles
- Fake Art (Forgery): (incorrect iconography or hierarchy)
- Name confusions: Palden Lhamo, Shri Devi, Heruka, etc.
- Name Inscription: Misidentified or Name Added
- Painting style & painting style name confusions
- Poor quality works & mixed styles
- Restoration: Over cleaning, repairs, holes, missing & added registers
- Suspect Art
- Varnish
Videos:
- Vajrapani & Vajrasattva Confusions
- Fake Art: Part 1 [4 min.]
- Fake Art: Part 2 (Paintings [7.5 min.])
- An Update About Fake Art (July 3rd, 2026 [15 min.])
- Pilgrimage Art [5.5 min.]
- Pilgrimage & Temple Shop Art [6 min.]
- Tourist Art [13 min.]
- Tibet Tourist Thangkas of the Kathmandu Valley, Yael Bentor, December 1993 (Book Review [5.5 min.]
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- Identifying Original Menri Style Paintings
- Distinguishing between Original Menri, New Menri and Old Menri
- Distinguishing Choying Dorje Works & Art Derived from Choying Dorje Works
- Differentiating (& naming) between Original Karma Gardri and Palpung Style Paintings.
- Traditional (contemporary) art: (four ground colours, etc.)
- Others...
Jeff Watt 6-2010 [updated 3-2015, 6-2017]
