Khin Maung (1910-1983) – ” Oever van Irrawaddi”

Dit betreft een prachtig kijkschilderij van de Burmese kunstenaar Khin Maung 1910-1983.Oliverf op paneel en is gesigneerd linksonder en gedateerd 1962.Het schilderij wordt gedragen door de orginele lijst.Enn prachtig werk!Khin Maung (Bank) was born in 1910 at Tantse (တန့်ဆည်), Shwebo District, the second son of a merchant, and became interested in painting at an early age.[1] He began his formal training through a correspondence course from the London-based Press Art School in 1933.[2] 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 in 1935.[1] He was interested in modern art and graphic art, and after World War II first began teaching these subjects to two young Mandalay artists, Win Pe and Paw Oo Thet, who would both, in turn, have a great impact on the movement in modernistic painting in Burma.[2][3][4]He wrote and gave workshops about modern art, explaining the principles to other artists.[1][3][4][5] In the 1960s, when a movement in modernistic painting began to bloom for the first time in Burma, he exhibited his works in Rangoon, as his students Paw Oo Thet and Win Pe and many other painters with modernistic inclinations... lees verder bij Catawiki