Painting
Websites/Multiple Documents
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
Category:
Blogs in English, Painting
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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Individual Documents
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
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
Date of publication:
2015-07-26
Date of entry/update:
2015-08-10
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Painting, Society and Culture, Burma/Myanmar - general studies, Arts - general, The Art of Burma -- General studies, International Conference on Burma/Myanmar Studies (ICBMS) 23-26 July, 2015
Language:
English
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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
Zawgyi
Source/publisher:
"Collected Works of Saya Zawgyi", Vol.1, pp9-14, 1993, Union of Myanmar Literary and Journalist Organization via University of Washington
Date of publication:
1993-00-00
Date of entry/update:
2014-11-30
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Language:
Burmese/ မြန်မာဘာသာ (Metadata: English and Burmese)
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pdf
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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
Zawgyi
Source/publisher:
"Collected Works of Saya Zawgyi", Vol.1, pp15-18, 1993, Union of Myanmar Literary and Journalist Organization via University of Washington
Date of publication:
1993-00-00
Date of entry/update:
2014-11-30
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Language:
Burmese/ မြန်မာဘာသာ (Metadata: English and Burmese)
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pdf
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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
Zawgyi
Source/publisher:
"Collected Works of Saya Zawgyi", Vol.1, pp3-8, 1993, Union of Myanmar Literary and Journalist Organization via University of Washington
Date of publication:
1993-00-00
Date of entry/update:
2014-11-30
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Language:
Burmese/ မြန်မာဘာသာ (Metadata: English and Burmese)
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pdf
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257.71 KB
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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
Carlos Sardina Galache
Source/publisher:
"The Irrawaddy"
Date of publication:
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
Date of publication:
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
Date of publication:
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
Date of publication:
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..."
Jim Andrews
Source/publisher:
"The Irrawaddy" Vol. 17, No. 8
Date of publication:
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..."
Jim Andrews
Source/publisher:
"The Irrawaddy" Vol. 17, No. 3
Date of publication:
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..."
Yeni
Source/publisher:
"The Irrawaddy" Vol. 17, No. 1
Date of publication:
2009-02-00
Date of entry/update:
2009-02-16
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Performing Arts, Painting
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."
Yin Ker
Source/publisher:
"Journal of Burma Studies" Vol. 10, (2005/06)
Date of publication:
2006-00-00
Date of entry/update:
2008-12-31
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Painting
Language:
English
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pdf
Size:
6.23 MB
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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..."
Aung Zaw
Source/publisher:
"The Irrawaddy" Vol 15, No. 8
Date of publication:
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
Yeni
Source/publisher:
"The Irrawaddy" Vol. 14, No. 5
Date of publication:
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..."
Jim Andrews
Source/publisher:
"The Irrawaddy" Vol. 13, No.6
Date of publication:
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..."
Harry Priestley
Source/publisher:
"The Irrawaddy" Vol. 13, No. 5
Date of publication:
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
Andrea Fleschenberg
Source/publisher:
Südostasien Jg. 20, Nr. 4 - Asienhaus
Date of publication:
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..."
Yin Ker
Source/publisher:
"The Irrawaddy", Vol. 12, No. 5
Date of publication:
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..."
Kyaw Zwa Moe
Source/publisher:
"The Irrawaddy" Vol. 12, No. 2
Date of publication:
2004-02-00
Date of entry/update:
2004-06-09
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Painting
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..."
San San Tin
Source/publisher:
"The Irrawaddy", Vol 9. No. 7
Date of publication:
2001-09-00
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Freedom of opinion and expression: - the situation in Burma/Myanmar - reports, analyses, recommendations, Painting
Language:
English
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