^{Wasantha Namaskara's Seven Hundred and Eleven 711}

^{Visual Arts Exhibition.}

^{Maithili Thakur}

^{I am an artist living in Sri Lanka. I always paint Maithili Thakur. There is a special reason for that.}

^{So far, more than 700 painting exhibitions have been held in various parts of Sri Lanka. There were many obstacles.}

^{Teachers and friends interrupted a lot. Among them are many professors. There are many educated and ignorant people. There are also Ministers of Education and Directors of Education. There were also learned monks.}

^{At some art exhibitions, the day before that ruined my creations. Exhibitions in the city of Colombo were disrupted in this way. Despite all the obstacles, I kept organizing exhibitions. I read a lot about society from it.}

^{Where they could not stop my journey, many educated friends made subtle and fierce attempts to remove me from the creative process using a variety of philosophies. Eventually everyone left me. I was alone. It is a very dangerous situation.}

^{At that time, I heard this song by Maithili Thakur by chance. https://youtu.be/76PGBufnc2c}

^{It was a beautiful thing for me.}

^{She made a huge difference in my use of visual arts. Her songs, beautiful figure and social behavior strongly influenced my use of art. It was a beautiful event.}

^{So she had a lot of space in my art practice. I have a separate collection of paintings by Maithili Thakur in my art practice. Now I want to start her own art gallery.}