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Paw Oo Thet was a heavy smoker and died at the age of 57 from lung cancer. [3] His funeral was attended by a great many artists of his period, who compiled a short work of collected poems for the occasion. He was a well-loved artist with a disarming sense of humor and the stumbling, sometimes penetrating, vision of a self-educated individual.
Myanmar Kin Maung Yin ( Burmese : ခင်မောင်ရင် , 1938 [ 2 ] –2014) was an influential Burmese artist who was recognized as one of the leaders in the first generation of Burma 's modern art movement together with Win Pe and Paw Oo Thet .
Following is a partial list of Burmese visual artists, ... sculptors and photographers. Name Born Died Medium Aikimay: 1977: Painter Aung Aung Taik [1] 1948: Painter ...
The Burma Art Club, founded in 1913, [5] assisted in the development of Burmese artists, and in 1921 helped him go to the Royal College of Art in London. [2] [5] Later he moved to the Yellow Door Fine Arts School, where he received personal instruction from the artist Frank Spenlove-Spenlove (1867-1933).
Trade with India during the Pyu period brought deep cultural contacts heavily influencing many aspects of visual culture in Myanmar. However, scholarship and archaeology on Pyu, Mon and Dvaravati art in neighbouring Thailand were biased by colonial attitudes in the 20th century, placing a greater emphaisis on comparisons to well-documented Gupta art.
Portrait silicone sculpture of U San Hlaing exhibited at Anawrahta Art Gallery. When the Second World War spread to Myanmar, he joined the Burmese Defense Army (BDA) in Pyapon. [3] In 1943, his posting was in the office of the Yangon War Minister. He was on sentry duty at the guard post. From there, he was sent to Mingaladon Training Corps.
Ngwe Gaing (Burmese: ငွေကိုင် [ŋwè ɡàɪɰ̃]; 1901–1967) was a Burmese artist who worked in both oil and watercolor. After the death of his teacher Ba Nyan, he was recognized as the greatest living painter in Myanmar. [1] He had great influence on the next generation of artists, and his works are now highly sought after.
Paw Thame (1948–2014) was a Burmese-American painter. He was one of the leaders of the modernist art movement in Burma during the 1970s and early 1980s. Paw Thame, Win Pe, Kin Maung Yin and Bagyi Aung Soe were friends at the Peacock Gallery exchanging modernist ideas and concepts, alternatively supporting one another and locked in rivalry.