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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 [...]
This beautiful book has been 10 years in the making but Andrew Ranard’s Burmese Painting: A Linear and Lateral History has arrived and is available in book stores. This is the most ambitious and comprehensive history of Burmese Painting to date and a great contribution to Myanmar art history. Beginning with eleventh-century Bagan to the [...]