KMY with novice.   Photo by Sonny Nyein     My sincere thanks to good friend Ma Thanegi for providing the following excerpt from her new book, This is Kin Maung Yin.   “The man… KMY, as he often signs his paintings, is more artist than man… the passion of his art suffuses his being [...]

    Win Pe used to introduce me to friends, “This is Chris. He is my biographer.” He would say it with a twinkle in his eyes, a little smack of his lips and a tilt of his head. A big smile would appear and then a healthy guffaw– poking fun at us both; at [...]

For Win Pe, Paw Oo Thett and Kin Maung Yin the heyday of painting in Rangoon was the 1960s. It was an exciting and creative time for these young painters with many exhibitions at embassies and parties at homes of diplomats and other foreigners. But by the early 1970s, the Socialist military government had ruined [...]