MYANMAR CONTEMPORARY ART By : Tin Win (Beikthano) Art Seasons Gallery 18.01.2013 Myanmar Art in Pre-historic Period • Pyada-lin Cave in eastern Shan State • Cave paintings were created about 15,000 years ago Cave paintings Cave paintings Myanmar Art in Pyu Period, 1st to 8th Century Gold bangle from Pyu Period Myanmar Art in Pre-historic Period • 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 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 THANK YOU!! .