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Paw Thame
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. They built on the foundations laid by early Burmese modernists Aung Khin and Kin Maung (Bank). Now recognized as the giants of Burmese modern art, Yangon society in the 1970s disparaged them--"modern art" was literally translated as "psychopathic art" or "crazy art". Early life/ Education Paw Thame was largely self-taught although as a young man he spent much time in the studios of Aung Khin and Kin Maung (Bank). When the Mandalay School of Fine Arts could not provide a night class for him the school's dean sent him to Aung Khin to learn. Riding his bike there, he became a habitute of this master's studio, where he was treated like a so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aung Khin
Aung Khin ( my, အောင်ခင် , 13 February 1921 – 14 May 1996) was a Burmese painter who became prominent in the Mandalay art world. He is well known as one of the foremost and earliest of modernistic painters in Burma. Training, memberships, and associations Aung Khin was born on 13 February 1921 in Nat Kyun Aung Myay village, Hsalingyi township, Monywa district, the youngest of seven children. His uncle and brothers ran a mixed art workshop, where he studied from the age of twelve. When he was sixteen, he moved to Yangon to study for five years as an apprentice under the London-trained Ba Nyan, whose works were primarily in a naturalistic and realistic vein. In 1947 Aung Khin moved to Mandalay where he married Tin Tin Aye. He became active in the Mandalay Artist's Association, and eventually became Secretary and President of the association. In Mandalay, he became an associate of Kin Maung (Bank)., a well-known Mandalay artist who proselytized heavily for a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kin Maung
Khin Maung (Bank) ( ; 1910 – 20 December 1983) was a Burmese painter and sponsor of the arts who was influential in the art world of Mandalay, Myanmar. More importantly, however, he was the major force for the development of a modernistic movement in painting in Burma, which began in the early 1960s. In 1952, Khin Maung became a bank manager, and thus he is often referred to as Khin Maung (Bank) to differentiate him from another Burmese painter Khin Maung (Yangon). The names of both Khin Maung (Bank) and Khin Maung (Yangon) are sometimes spelled as "Khin Maung". Life Khin Maung (Bank) was born in 1910 at Tantse (), Shwebo District, the second son of a merchant, and became interested in painting at an early age. He began his formal training through a correspondence course from the London-based Press Art School in 1933. In 1934, he took further correspondence courses from ( Pyinmana) U Hla and the London School of Fine Arts. He started drawing cartoons and commercial paintings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
U Thant
Thant (; ; January 22, 1909 – November 25, 1974), known honorifically as U Thant (), was a Burmese diplomat and the third secretary-general of the United Nations from 1961 to 1971, the first non-Scandinavian to hold the position. He held the office for a record 10 years and one month. A native of Pantanaw, Thant was educated at the National High School and at Rangoon University. In the days of tense political climate in Burma, he held moderate views positioning himself between fervent nationalists and British loyalists. He was a close friend of Burma's first Prime Minister U Nu and served in various positions in Nu's cabinet from 1948 to 1961. Thant had a calm and unassuming demeanor that won his colleagues' respect. He was appointed as Secretary-General in 1961, six weeks after his predecessor, Dag Hammarskjöld, had died in an air crash. In his first term, Thant facilitated negotiations between U.S. President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev during t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burmese Americans
Burmese Americans ( my, မြန်မာဇာတိနွယ် အမေရိကန် ) are Americans of full or partial Myanmar, Burmese ancestry. The term encompasses people of all ethnic backgrounds with ancestry in present-day Myanmar (or Burma), regardless of specific ethnicity. They are a subgroup of Asian Americans. As a small group, Burmese Americans have largely integrated into the larger Southeast Asian and South Asian American communities. The estimated immigrant population for 2015-2019 was 147,600. the largest populations by county were as follows: 1) Marion County, Indiana ---------------------- 8,800 2) Los Angeles County, California, Los Angeles County, CA --------------------- 7,600 3) Ramsey County, Minnesota --------------- 6,800 4) Milwaukee County, Wisconsin------------ 5,800 5) Allen County, Indiana ------------------------- 4,200 6) San Mateo County, California, San Mateo County, CA ----------------------- 3,800 7) Alameda County, California, A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burma
Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explains, the English spellings of both Myanmar and Burma assume a non-rhotic variety of English, in which the letter r before a consonant or finally serves merely to indicate a long vowel: mjænmɑː, ˈbɜːmə So the pronunciation of the last syllable of Myanmar as ɑːror of Burma as ɜːrməby some speakers in the UK and most speakers in North America is in fact a spelling pronunciation based on a misunderstanding of non-rhotic spelling conventions. The final ''r'' in ''Myanmar'' was not intended for pronunciation and is there to ensure that the final a is pronounced with the broad ''ah'' () in "father". If the Burmese name my, မြန်မာ, label=none were spelled "Myanma" in English, this would be pronounced at the end by all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Win Pe
Win Pe ( my, ဝင်းဖေ; born 16 June 1935) is one of Myanmar’s most celebrated living artists.Kyan Phyo Tha. “The Renaissance Man”. The Irrawady 4 April 2019. https://www.irrawaddy.com/in-person/profile/145709-the-renaissance-man.html Along with his close friends Kin Maung Yin and Paw Oo Thett, Win Pe was a leader of Myanmar’s modern art movement in the 1960s.Ranard, Andrew (2009). “The Modernist Movement: The Mandalay Resurgence”. Burmese Painting: A Linear and Lateral History. Silkworm Books. Pp. 227-237. .Ma Thanegi. "A brief history of Myanmar modern art". Chris Dodge Gallery. https://web.archive.org/web/20101023201835/http://chrisdodgegallery.com/a-brief-history-of-myanmar-modern-art-by-ma-thanegi ) /Archived from the original on 23 October 2010. Retrieved 2021-11-25. In the 1970s and 1980s, he was a successful film director, winning Myanmar’s equivalent of the Academy Award in 1981.Zon Pann Pwint. "U Win Pe, a man of many talents, makes up for lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kin Maung Yin
Kin Maung Yin (Burmese: ခင်မောင်ရင်, 1938–2014) 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. Kin Maung Yin was the leader of this group which in addition to Win Pe and Paw Oo Thett soon included Baji Aung Soe, Nan Waii, Shwe Oung Thame. He died at Yangon on 10 June 2014 at the age of 76. KMY, as he was sometimes known, was born Frank Sewell. His father was a Scot in the British Army who married a local and lived in the village shunned by other British but he was happy. KMY was the oldest of 10 children He studied architecture at University of Yangon. He joined the team for 18 months in construction of Kamalapur Railway Station, Dhaka after he graduated. It was his first and the last salary-man job. He was in film business before started painting in 1960s. He was known not only for his paintings but also for his monk-like devot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aung Soe
''Bagyi'' Aung Soe ( my, ဗဂျီ အောင်စိုး ; 1924–1990) was a Burmese painter renowned for his modernistic, semi-abstract art, which caused such a shock in Burma when it appeared that many called it "psychopathic art". The name "Bagyi" is his phonetic spelling of the word "pangyi", meaning "painting", which he first added to his name in 1955. Santiniketan and Early Life in Burma The Indian government offered him a scholarship in 1951 to study art at Santiniketan, founded by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, but he chose to return to Burma after only a year. He traveled throughout Burma studying its handicrafts, classical art and architecture, especially that of Bagan. In early 1953 one of Aung Soe's abstract paintings was published in ''Shumawa'' magazine, causing considerable controversy. Some said that the artist was mad. Trip to Peshawar, Afghanistan and Russia In the winter of 1953 he was able to visit Peshawar, Afghanistan and Moscow for ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kin Maung
Khin Maung (Bank) ( ; 1910 – 20 December 1983) was a Burmese painter and sponsor of the arts who was influential in the art world of Mandalay, Myanmar. More importantly, however, he was the major force for the development of a modernistic movement in painting in Burma, which began in the early 1960s. In 1952, Khin Maung became a bank manager, and thus he is often referred to as Khin Maung (Bank) to differentiate him from another Burmese painter Khin Maung (Yangon). The names of both Khin Maung (Bank) and Khin Maung (Yangon) are sometimes spelled as "Khin Maung". Life Khin Maung (Bank) was born in 1910 at Tantse (), Shwebo District, the second son of a merchant, and became interested in painting at an early age. He began his formal training through a correspondence course from the London-based Press Art School in 1933. In 1934, he took further correspondence courses from (Pyinmana) U Hla and the London School of Fine Arts. He started drawing cartoons and commercial paintings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarpay Beikman
Sarpay Beikman ( my, စာပေဗိမာန်; ) originated as the Burmese Translation Society. Its first President was Prime Minister U Nu, who started a Burmese translation job at Judson College (now University of Yangon). The purpose was to translate world culture, literature, education for the Burmese public. In 1963, the society was absorbed into the Ministry of Information's Printing and Publishing Enterprise as the Sarpay Beikman Literature House, and the mandate was extended to encourage local writers and to print and publish books of all types. The society presents the annual Sarpay Beikman Manuscript Awards and Burma National Literature Awards for excellent new unpublished and published writing in various categories. Early years After independence the Burmese Translation Society decided that independent Burma need a Burmese Encyclopedia and began the project to compile one in May 1948. Initially, they wanted to translate Sir John Hamilton's encyclopedia into 10 vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shwe Oung Thame
Shwe Oung Thame (born Aung Thein; 1932–1994) was a Burmese painter with a high reputation among modernists in Burma. Although older than Win Pe and Paw Oo Thet, he did not arrive on the modernist scene until a few years after them. Later he would join Paw Thame and the group at Peacock Gallery in their modernist experimentations. He was born Aung Thein but later changed the spelling of his name in English and added the prefix Shwe, meaning gold, signing his paintings Shwe Oung Thame. Life / Early Training Shwe Oung Thame was born in Yangon and was introduced to painting at a young age. He studied under the well-known master, Ba Thet. Beginning in 1961, he showed more than 300 paintings at Sarpaybeikman Exhibitions. Work Shwe Oung Thame was an important artist in the middle period in the development of modernist art in Burma. He was an outsider with a witty, grouchy personality. This rebelliousness—common among the modernists at Peacock Gallery—was probably a requirement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ma Thanegi
Ma Thanegi ( my, မသိင်္ဂီ; born 1946) is a Burmese writer, best known for her numerous English works on various Burmese topics, including travel, history and cuisine. She was a contributing editor to the '' Myanmar Times'' and editor of ''Enchanting Myanmar'', a travel magazine. She was born to father Tin Tut and mother May Tin Tut. and has one older brother Aye Tut. She attended the prestigious Methodist English High School of Yangon (Rangoon). She was a painter in the early part of her life with many annual group shows (1967 onwards) and seven solo shows (1985 to (1998) after which she began her writing career. She has also translated some Burmese writings of others into English such as works of Khin Hnin Yu and Daw Ma Ma lay etc. Thanegi attended Methodist English High School, the Rangoon State School of Fine Arts, the Rangoon Institute of Economics, and Institute of Foreign Languages, where she studied German and French. Thanegi served as Aung San Suu Kyi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
