Myanmar [Burmese] Artists | U Lun Gywe
U Lun Gywe was born in 1930 and is one of the most well known and well respected artists in
Myanmar today and is considered probably the greatest living master of
Myanmar painting. He graduated from the Art Institute of Teacher's Training and continued his studies under famous artists such as U Thet Win, U Chit Maung, U San Win, U Thein Han and U Ngwe Gaing. "I paint according to my emotions", says the artist, "drawing inspiration from smell and textures, light and shadow". At the centre of U Lun Gywe’s oeuvre
is a focus on the female form, and in particular the beauty
of females dancing, taking a bath or preparing their
traditional Myanmar thanaka makeup. Although U Lun Gywe paints other subject matters, he always returns to his favourite
subject with a vision of female beauty. He exhibits regularly in
Myanmar and has participated in several art exhibitions
abroad, such as in Japan (1985), Korea (1989), Australia
(1990, 1991, 1992), USA (New York, 1990, 2006), Singapore
(1995, 2004, 2006, 2009), and Thailand (2004, 2005,
2007,2011). His works are found in the public
collections of the National Museum of Myanmar and the National Art Gallery of Malaysia.
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New Book:
Feasting the Female Form
With an artistic practice that spans more than fifty
years, eighty year old U Lun Gywe is regarded as
Myanmar's
most prominent master painters and one of Southeast
Asia's most important senior artists. U Lun Gywe's
figurative works of Burmese women are a celebration of
their inherent beauty and grace, which he renders
through his unique Impressionist style of painting that
is a combination of orientalist discipline and western
artistic practices. His paintings of dancers and village
women, rendered with a vibrant palette and sweeping
brushstrokes, are filled with movement - a contrast to
his quiet sketches of nudes that aptly reflect his
western art training. |
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