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Creator/author: Htein Lin
Source/publisher: Htein Lin
Date of entry/update: 2007-12-19
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Category: Painting
Language: English
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Description: "Kick-Start Art is a non-profit community organization that provides art classes and creative platforms to migrant children along the Thai-Burmese (Myanmar) border. We also offer sustainable employment to local artists. Kids. Art. Jobs. There?s a lot to love about Kick-Start ART. Check out the menu tabs for a summary of our activities and visit us on Facebook for more pictures and updates. - Happy Creating!..."
Source/publisher: Kick-Start ART
Date of entry/update: 2014-09-21
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Description: "Nawaday Tharlar Gallery opened May 2012 with a passion for sharing art and ideas in Yangon. Nawaday Tharlar is devoted to creating a space for freedom of expression and a place for people to come together and share their art, music, poetry, stories and for holding workshops.... Nawaday Tharlar holds a bi-monthly open mic, where anyone can come play, sing, dance, read, act or any performance. We also hold different activities like a drawing club, art days, exhibitions, teashop/drawing workshops and more.... Nawaday Tharlar Gallery also supports an Open Education Library project (OEL), which provides accessible information, lectures and video-heavy files on OEL?s hardrives: - http://openeducationlibrary.weebly.com/
Source/publisher: Nawaday Tharlar Art Gallery
Date of entry/update: 2015-08-12
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Category: Painting
Language: English
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Description: "Pansodan and Suriya galleries are a project of Aung Soe Min and Nance Cunningham. Find Pansodan Gallery on the upper block of Pansodan Street in the heart of downtown Yangon, just a few doors down from the Panorama Hotel. We?re on the first floor. Find Suriya Gallery in Chiang Mai on Huay Kaew. No. 2, Hotel Bua Luang, Soi Bua Luang (the same soi as Holiday Garden, off Huay Kaew Road. Look for the spray-paint Suriya Art Gallery sign before you get to the hotel gate, or park in the Nice Nails/Mr Chan and Miss Pauline?s Pizza parking lot and walk through the gate to No. 2)"
Source/publisher: Pansuriya
Date of entry/update: 2009-04-11
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Description: "About 2,500 results" (August 2015)
Source/publisher: Google
Date of entry/update: 2015-08-17
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Category: Painting
Language: English, Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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Description: "Thukhuma explores art, culture, education and politics in Myanmar. Online, it presents the work of contemporary painters, and provides a forum for analysis and debate. Offline, it makes available its entire collection for display in public spaces. Thukhuma actively seeks to loan or donate paintings to museums, galleries, universities, schools, hospitals and other public institutions. About the collection"... "The thukhuma collection is personal and partial. It does not display the full range of paintings now being produced by Myanmar artists, and certainly there are major gaps. The guiding principle is to present multiple artistic perspectives on a society in transition. Most of the paintings thus date from the past few years."...
Source/publisher: Thukhuma
Date of entry/update: 2015-08-17
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Category: Painting
Language: English, Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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Description: Introduction: "The main purpose for this study on the Myanmar cloth painting fine art as comparative work during 11th?18th century is to attain perceptive knowledge and exchange of expertise among the neighbouring counties in Southeast Asia. In Myanmar, knowledge and practice of Theravada Buddhism has been related to the literature, architecture, fine arts and daily life style of the people residing in the ancient city of Bagan (11th-­‐13th century CE). At that time, the tr aditional fine arts of Myanmar in Bagan was unique and perpetually augmented. Thus varieties of arts like architecture, stucco carvings, inscriptions, sculpture of wood/stone and other materials turnery and tapestry and glazed plaques and reliefs and smith ?works were decorated at the stupas and temples. Moreover, mural paintings were also depicted those mainly consisted of Buddha?s life stories including Nativity scenes, ascending the throne, great renunciation, Enlightenment 45 years preaching Dhamma, 550 Jatakas stories and Demised Buddha in the Parinicana scene. Nearly at the same period of the 11th century, fine arts on cloth painting emerged in Myanmar. According to the documentary references and survey findings of archaeologists and researchers, it was stated that Myanmar cloth painting fine arts appeared in the ancient city of Bagan (Abeyatana Temple No. 1202). Since then, the tradition of cloth painting spread out by the fine artists to the other people within Bagan and also to different places in later periods. Abeyatana Ceti, situated over the vault of the main temple No. 1202 (1084-­‐1113 CE), was the only temple being built in 11th century CE. Even after 800 years, some remains of cloth painting were seen on the lowest terrace of the Ceti of that temple. Regarding the cloth painting terraces at Abeyatana Ceti, it can be assumed to be one of the oldest extent images in Myanmar. In this paper I will also argue that it could be one of the oldest extent cloth painting idols in Southeast Asia. At the present, there are traces of cloth paintings in twenty temples in Myanmar from the 11th-­‐18th century. (See map. 1) Out of 20, sixteen temples are situated in Bagan (See map. 2), one is in Salay, one in Sarle, one in Mandalay and the final one is in Pakhan Gyi.".....International Conference on Burma/Myanmar Studies: Burma/Myanmar in Transition: Connectivity, Changes and Challenges: University Academic Service Centre (UNISERV), Chiang Mai University, Thailand, 24-­26 July 2015
Creator/author: Aye Aye Oo
Source/publisher: International Conference on Burma/Myanmar Studies: Burma/Myanmar in Transition: Connectivity, Changes and Challenges: University Academic Service Centre (UNISERV), Chiang Mai University, Thailand, 24-­26 July 2015
2015-07-26
Date of entry/update: 2015-08-10
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
Format : pdf
Size: 3.58 MB
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Description: Buddhist art developed in Pagan. Scenes from the life of the Buddha were drawn on the walls of Kubyaukgyi, Abheyadana and other temples in Bagan. These Buddhist paintings are the beginning of Myanmar texts on the life of Buddha, such as "Marlarlingarya" and Zinattha Pakathani.....Subject Terms: 1. Painting-Myanmar-Bagan period... 2. Buddhist Art..... Key Words: Bagan
Creator/author: Zawgyi
Source/publisher: "Collected Works of Saya Zawgyi", Vol.1, pp9-14, 1993, Union of Myanmar Literary and Journalist Organization via University of Washington
1993-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2014-11-30
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Burmese/ မြန်မာဘာသာ (Metadata: English and Burmese)
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Description: Interior walls of Abheyadanar, Kubyaukgyi and Nandamanya pagodas were painted with scenes from the Buddha; they were influenced by Mahayana Buddhism. Paintings of Boddisatvas were mainly Mahayanist.....Subject Terms: Painting... Key Words: Mahayana Painting
Creator/author: Zawgyi
Source/publisher: "Collected Works of Saya Zawgyi", Vol.1, pp15-18, 1993, Union of Myanmar Literary and Journalist Organization via University of Washington
1993-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2014-11-30
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Burmese/ မြန်မာဘာသာ (Metadata: English and Burmese)
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Description: Painting in Bagan developed because the kings and wungyi valued and rewarded the painters. Buddhism developed in Bagan and Buddhist art stimulated the development of Bagan painting.....Subject Terms: Paintings-Myanmar-Bagan period..... Key Words: Art... Pagan
Creator/author: Zawgyi
Source/publisher: "Collected Works of Saya Zawgyi", Vol.1, pp3-8, 1993, Union of Myanmar Literary and Journalist Organization via University of Washington
1993-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2014-11-30
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Burmese/ မြန်မာဘာသာ (Metadata: English and Burmese)
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Description: "On the first floor of a dilapidated building in downtown Rangoon, a narrow staircase leads up to a small space that probably houses more contemporary art per square meter than anywhere else in the city: the Pansodan Gallery. Unlike other galleries, such as those at Bogyoke Aung San market that only sell paintings with ?exotic” themes to satisfy the wildt Orientalist fantasies of tourists, Pansodan reveals an art scene far richer than one would expect in a country like Burma/ Myanmar—mired in poverty, isolated for years from the rest of the world, and tightly controlled by one of the most repressive dictatorships in the world. In its three years, the gallery, open every day of the week until six in the evening, has become a meeting place for artists and art enthusiasts. Burmese and foreigners all visit the gallery, not only to buy or sell pieces of art, but to have a tea, exchange ideas, attend a poetry reading, or simply to relax for a while. The gallery?s owner, Aung Soe Min, is a gentle and kind man that welcomes visitors with Burmese hospitality, and is always relaxed and happy to answer any questions..."... Originally published in Spanish in the website FronteraD under the title ?El galerista de Rangún”. See Alternate URL
Creator/author: Carlos Sardina Galache
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy"
2012-01-26
Date of entry/update: 2012-08-15
Grouping: Individual Documents
Category: Painting
Language: English, Espanol, Spanish
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Description: "A Burmese artist from a prominent Shan family is currently exhibiting his paintings in Chiang Mai in northern Thailand. Sawan Yawnghwe is the grandson of Sao Shwe Thaik, the first president of the Union of Burma following independence in 1948, who was assassinated following Gen Ne Win?s military coup in 1962. Fleeing persecution in Burma, Sawan?s family went into exile when he was an infant, first in Chiang Mai, then in Canada..."
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 18, No. 7
2010-07-00
Date of entry/update: 2010-08-30
Grouping: Individual Documents
Category: Painting
Language: English
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Description: "Three Burmese artists, including The Irrawaddy?s cartoonist and illustrator Harn Lay, will show their work this month at an exhibition in Kyoto, Japan. The other two are Yei Myint and Kaung Su. Yei Myint, who studied at the State School of Fine Arts in Mandalay, has exhibited extensively abroad and currently has a one-man show, entitled ?Van Gogh Visits Pagan,? at the Suvannabhumi Gallery in Chiang Mai. Kaung Su studied at the State School of Fine Arts in Rangoon and is well known for his ?Black Face? series. Gallery owner Mar Mar selected the works of the three artists for the Kyoto exhibition, which runs from Dec. 18—23."
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 17, No. 9
2009-12-00
Date of entry/update: 2010-02-28
Grouping: Individual Documents
Category: Painting
Language: English
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Description: Graffiti artists move further into the mainstream in Burma with an exhibition of their work opening at the end of September at Rangoon?s New Zero Space Gallery... "?We want to promote graffiti as an artistic movement,? said the gallery?s Ko Aye Ko. The young artist, whose work will also be on show, said graffiti in Burma reflected the tensions and despair felt by the country?s youth. Contemporary artists such as Nyein Chan Suu and Kaung Suu will display their work inside the gallery, while an outside wall will provide a surface for other spray painters to show their talent. The graffiti phenomenon first surfaced in Burma about nine years ago and won followers in Burma?s pop art and music scene and in commercial design. Although a successful exhibition of graffiti was held at the French Cultural Center in Rangoon in 2007, it remains an underground art movement..."
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 17, No. 7
2009-10-00
Date of entry/update: 2010-02-28
Grouping: Individual Documents
Category: Painting
Language: English
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Description: First comprehensive history of Burmese painting uncovers an aesthetic treasure house... "When his diplomat father died in the early 1990s, Andrew Ranard inherited a small collection of Burmese paintings, and in a visit to Burma in 1994 he acquainted himself firsthand with the artists and their work. His research took him into an artistic world that was then little known outside Burma..."
Creator/author: Jim Andrews
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 17, No. 8
2009-11-00
Date of entry/update: 2010-02-28
Grouping: Individual Documents
Category: Painting
Language: English
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Description: "Artists pay scant attention to regime restrictions by tackling a taboo genre... ENCOURAGED and emboldened by an increasing interest in their work among Western art enthusiasts and collectors, some Burmese artists are venturing into a genre that breaks with the past and bravely flouts official disapproval. It?s literally naked defiance. These artists are tackling an aesthetic subject that has been treated openly in the West for centuries—the nude..."
Creator/author: Jim Andrews
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 17, No. 3
2009-06-00
Date of entry/update: 2009-06-24
Grouping: Individual Documents
Category: Painting
Language: English
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Description: "Burmese artist captures traditional dances on canvas... IN his latest solo exhibition, Nay Myo Say, one of Burma?s best known contemporary artists, has again demonstrated his outstanding skill in depicting the essence of Burmese classical dancing and Buddhist ritual..."
Creator/author: Yeni
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 17, No. 1
2009-02-00
Date of entry/update: 2009-02-16
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: Abstract: "Rangoon-based artist Bagyi Aung Soe (1924-1990) has been regarded by fellow artists as a pioneer of modern art in Burma. Influenced by precepts practiced at Rabindranath Tagore?s ?… ?antiniketan, he elaborated an original painting approach and style synthesizing diverse artistic approaches, which neither adhered exclusively to the European or Burmese artistic tradition nor regurgitated twentieth-century Western artistic innovations. Despite his renown within Burma, his idiom remains little understood both within and beyond Burma because of a lack of awareness of his motivations and their context. This article attempts to elucidate Bagyi Aung Soe?s interpretation of modernity in Burmese painting, and with reference to his works and writings, examine the modernity of his art."
Creator/author: Yin Ker
Source/publisher: "Journal of Burma Studies" Vol. 10, (2005/06)
2006-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2008-12-31
Grouping: Individual Documents
Category: Painting
Language: English
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Description: Migrant artist shares his earnings with the refugees who people his canvases... "Suffering from depression and weighed down by the hardships of life in Burma, Maung Maung Tinn finally decided to leave his home town, Moulmein, capital of Mon State. That was in 1994. ?I felt I had no future there, so I left my home,? the soft-spoken painter said. The child of a Shan father and Karen mother, Maung Maung Tinn felt hopelessness at not being able to help his parents and grandparents. They were helping to pay for his studies at Moulmein University, while he did his best to lighten the load o?n them by working as a clerk in a government-owned electricity plant. Like many other Burmese, he made for Mae Sot, in Thailand, where he rapidly found employment at Dr Cynthia Maung?s Clinic, working at first as a chef, preparing meals for patients and medical staff, and then becoming a trained medic and health worker in the clinic?s outpatient department. His real talent surfaced, however, during his free time—hours he spent drawing and painting. He had shown promise at school, inspired by such famous Burmese artists as Wa Thone and Myo Myint..."
Creator/author: Aung Zaw
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy" Vol 15, No. 8
2007-08-00
Date of entry/update: 2008-05-02
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: Burma?s political prisoners find some measure of freedom in jail through resourceful self-expression
Creator/author: Yeni
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 14, No. 5
2006-05-00
Date of entry/update: 2006-12-28
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: Burmese paintings find their home in a Chiang Mai gallery... "It?s a sad reflection on the Rangoon regime?s restrictive policies on artistic expression that one of Southeast Asia?s finest collections of contemporary Burmese art isn?t to be found in Burma, but in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand. All the works in Lashio-born Mar Mar?s collection—more than 400 paintings, drawings and collages by 50 or so artists—were created in Burma, but many of them could never be displayed publicly there. They include paintings deemed ?political? and nudes that would offend the puritanical tastes of the Rangoon generals..."
Creator/author: Jim Andrews
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 13, No.6
2005-06-00
Date of entry/update: 2006-04-28
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: Harry Priestley goes to Rangoon to take a look at the development and current state of modern art in Burma and finds that there is life beyond the buffalo... "The man wipes his brow and studies the painting. Two robed monks are disappearing into a melting pastel-orange sunset while in the foreground a buffalo, head cocked quizzically, stares out. After a brief conversation with his companion, the man asks the stall holder to wrap the piece and pulls out a fan of fifty dollar bills. He takes the package and before the pair have climbed into a taxi, the empty wall space has been filled with another, almost identical painting. In Rangoon, where the average wage is somewhere in the region of a dollar a day, art can mean good business. Kyaw Zay Yar sells his paintings from his brother?s stall at downtown Rangoon?s Bogyoke Market and, despite it being only April, reckons to have already sold nearly 150 pieces this year. Passionate in declaring his love for contemporary abstract artists like Nyein Chan Su (?So strong and free, he?s the best?), Kyaw Zay Yar is first and foremost a man looking to provide for his young family—and churning out monks and sunsets helps him do just that. ?I paint like this because it?s good business,? he says. ?Foreigners like to buy beautiful scenes, so that?s what I paint..."
Creator/author: Harry Priestley
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 13, No. 5
2005-05-00
Date of entry/update: 2006-04-27
Grouping: Individual Documents
Category: Painting
Language: English
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Description: »Identities versus Globalisation? Positionen zeitgenössischer Kunst aus Südostasien«, von der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung organisierten Kunstausstellung mit fast sechzig Werken aus zehn südostasiatischen Ländern. key words: art, globalisation, galleries in Burma
Creator/author: Andrea Fleschenberg
Source/publisher: Südostasien Jg. 20, Nr. 4 - Asienhaus
2004-12-00
Date of entry/update: 2005-03-01
Grouping: Individual Documents
Category: Painting
Language: Deutsch, German
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Description: "Solitary and destitute throughout his life, Bagyi Aung Soe probably never imagined the impact of his work on future Burmese artists and the success many now enjoy... Today, more than a decade after the death of illustrator, actor, teacher, and, above all, artist Bagyi Aung Soe (1923-1990), paintings by Burmese artists are fetching record prices in the local and international markets. Bagyi (Burmese for ?painting?) Aung Soe did not live to see his own work on display in museums and private galleries or to see his fellow artists shine in international art exhibitions. It probably never occurred to him that it could be so. When he passed away in Rangoon in 1990, he had just witnessed some of the most appalling events in recent Burmese history. Hope in his homeland?s future was bleak; the health of the country?s art community was the furthest thing on most people?s minds. Yet, he continued to express and create—if only on any scrap of paper that he could get his hands on..."
Creator/author: Yin Ker
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy", Vol. 12, No. 5
2004-05-00
Date of entry/update: 2004-08-01
Grouping: Individual Documents
Category: Painting
Language: English
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Description: "Under the authoritarian government that lasted from 1962 to 1988, Burma?s artists were down and out. But with Burmese paintings now fetching tens of thousands of US dollars on international markets, Burmese art is up and coming..."
Creator/author: Kyaw Zwa Moe
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 12, No. 2
2004-02-00
Date of entry/update: 2004-06-09
Grouping: Individual Documents
Category: Painting
Language: English
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Description: in the National Gallery of Australia
Creator/author: Jane Carter
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: "Showcasing work from contemporary artists in Myanmar,Burma.
Source/publisher: Thavibu Gallery
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Individual Documents
Category: Painting
Language: English
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Description: "Paw Thit could have taught Kyaw Win much about the meaning of art; instead Burma?s best-loved art critic is behind bars, a victim of the system the inscrutable Kyaw Win represents. No Burmese artist or art lover could ever fail to recognize the title of A Quest for Beauty, a celebrated book of art criticism by a writer of rare gifts named Paw Thit. This excellent handbook of Burmese art history, covering every imaginable "ism", has earned the admiration of countless aficionados of the fine arts in Burma. Certainly, a passionate amateur painter like Maj-Gen Kyaw Win, deputy to Military Intelligence (MI) chief Lt-Gen Khin Nyunt, could be counted among those who can truly appreciate Paw Thit�s sensitivity to line and color, light and shade, perspective and depth of artistic vision. And if Paw Thit ever had a chance to review Kyaw Win?s work on display at the G. V. Gallery, in Rangoon?s exclusive Golden Valley suburb, he would no doubt offer words of encouragement to this dedicated dilettante. Cutting a dignified but kindly figure, he might make a critical comparison to the work of U Lun Kywe, Burma?s most famous impressionist painter, while acknowledging that Kyaw Win had true talent and an eye for beauty. Sadly, however, this encounter is unlikely to ever take place. For Paw Thit, Burma?s most respected art critic, is none other than U Win Tin, a veteran journalist who was once one of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi?s most valued advisors?s role that has cost him his freedom. For a dozen years now, U Win Tin, a.k.a. Paw Thit, has been a political prisoner in Rangoon?s infamous Insein Prison. Held in solitary confinement for more than a decade, but unbent in his convictions, he continues to exert inestimable influence on Burma?s artistic community..."
Creator/author: San San Tin
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy", Vol 9. No. 7
2001-09-00
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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