Remove The Magic Of The Mask

My Discovery of Over100years ago, Sri lankan mask art is hardly known to the world, even its research is just started in last century, but there forms strongly contrast among its mystical performance, simple shapes and materials. Several masks with exorcism mask art character, by the slightly scary figures, make audience immediately feel them seem to be existed. I had been fascinated by various mask arts when I got my first mask that form Africa. Since "Primitive Art" is getting popular, all information related to African art have revealed African art’s mysterious veil. But we still known little about mystery of Sri lankan mask art, we need develop deeper to this distant area. This article starts form the origin of Sri lankan mask and stresses on the probe into the mask’s art type, craft etiquette, material and manufacturing techniques. Different mask colors stand for different symbolic meanings, Sri lankan mask with its uniqueness is facing on such issues as preservation and inheritance, which has enlightening significance on the research and on portrait sculpture’s development nowadays.Facing to these Sri lankan artworks, I am holding the view of an amateur or a sculpture audience rather than a national scholar. I hereby declare that my view is based on the interest and emotions. when I face these extraordinary spiritual arts, their performance are still greatly fresh to me.