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MYANMAR CONTEMPORARY ART

By : Tin Win (Beikthano)

Art Seasons Gallery

18.01.2013

Myanmar Art in Pre-historic Period

Cave paintings

• Pyada-lin Cave in eastern Shan State

• Cave paintings were created about 15,000 years ago

Cave paintings

Gold bangle from Pyu Period

Myanmar Art in Pyu Period, 1st to 8th Century

• Remains are the evidence

• Pyu artists’ works have also been found on the walls of stupas and pagodas, clothes, wooden sheets and metal sheets

• Arts of Pyu era were either lost or destroyed by time or natural disaster

Myanmar Art in Pre-historic Period

Pyu period hand painted beads

Pyu period hand painted beads

Pyu period hand painted bead

Pyu period hand painted bead

Pyu Period broken pottery

Pyu Period broken pottery

Pyu period broken pottery

Pyu period broken pottery

Pyu period broken pottery

Pyu Period broken pottery

Pyu period broken pottery

Pyu Period broken pottery

Pyu Period broken pottery

Pyu Period broken pottery

Myanmar Art in Bagan Period

• Myanmar art reached a high

• Paintings were created on the walls of over 4,000 stupas and many can be still seen unlike Pyu

• Featured mostly Indian

• The spectrum of color was also very limited

• There was a clear shift in painting style from Indian to Myanmar style in 13th centenary

Bagan mural painting

Bagan mural painting

Bagan mural painting

Bagan mural painting

Bagan mural painting

• Paintings were created on the walls of caves of stupas and

pagodas

• Creations fall short of those works in the previous era.

• Green and blue color paints were found

Inwa period mural painting

Inwa period mural painting

Inwa period mural painting

Inwa period mural painting

Parabike painting

Parabike painting

Parabike painting

Painting on cloth

Sayar Ni

Sayar Ni

Parabike painting

Saya Chone

Saya Psy

Saya Saw

• In 1904, British watercolor art master Robert Talbot Kelley and artist Sir Gerald Kelly arrived in Myanmar

• Myanmar artists began to practice the international painting styles of transparent watercolor and oil painting

• Burma art club was founded in 1924

• State fine arts schools have since been established and have helped Myanmar’s arts and artists gradually develop

Unknown British Artist

Unknown British Artist

Unknown British Artist

J.R. Middleton

J.R MIddleton

Sr. Gerald Kelly

Sr. Gerald Kelly

Robert Talbot Kelly

Robert Talbot Kelly

Robert Talbot Kelly

Robert Talbot Kelly

Robert Talbot Kelly

Robert Talbot Kelly

Robert Talbot Kelly

Robert Talbot Kelly

Saya Myit

Saya Myit

U Aung Khin

U Ba Nyan

U Ba Nyan

U Ba Nyan

U Ba Nyan

U Ba Nyan

U Ngwe Gaing

U Ba Kyi

Saya Ae

U Ba Nyan

U Ba Thet

U Ngwe Gaing

U Ba Thet

U Ngwe Gaing

Ko Lay

U Ngwe Gaing

Socialism Period, 1962 to 1988

•The dark age of Myanmar arts •Closed-door socialist economic policy had prevented artists from studying abroad •Artists had struggled for their livelihood, and eventually lived and died in poverty •Drawing socialist propaganda paintings were the only sources of income

U San Lwin

Myanmar Contemporary Art

•Exposure to international art styles began drawing Myanmar artists to modern art • By the early 1960’s , the experiment of modern had begun •In 1992, American contemporary artists visited Myanmar to expanded the knowledge of the artists •The rapid development of new technologies add last benefits to Myanmar art community •In 2013, the Myanmar government dismissed the constricted censorship laws in the art community

U Chit Myae

Ko Shwe Oung Thame

U Khin Maung (Bank)

U Khin Maung (Bank)

Paw Oo Thett

Paw Oo Thett

Paw Oo Thett

Mg Kyaw

Harry Aung

U Lun Gywe

U Lun Gywe

U Lun Gywe

Bagyi Aung Soe

U Win Pe

U Win Pe

U Win Pe

U Win Pe

Khin Maung Yin

Khin Maung Yin

Khin Maung Yin

Paw Thame

Aung Myint

Aung Myint

San Min

San Min

Zaw Win Pe

Zaw Win Pe

Zaw Win Pe

Min Wae Aung

Tin Win

Tin Win

Tin Win

Tin Win

Sanda Khine

Soe Naing

Aung Ko

Aung Ko

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