Category Archives: Interviews
Myint Soe
Written on September 8, 2020
Why did you choose this painting? As war and displacement persist, I continue to paint this subject to this day. Mostly I have more emotion for children. I wonder what happens to their education and well-being. Back then, I thought about the clashes in Kachin and Kayin States. It’s easy for me to travel to…
Kaung Kyaw Khine
Written on September 7, 2020
Why did you choose this painting? The Rakhine drum is part of my life. My father is a school art teacher with an interest in Rakhine culture. I’ve always felt I was born with art and with the drum. I learned the basics of art and local history from my father. I’ve been playing the…
Hein Thit
Written on September 4, 2020
Why did you choose this painting? I thought back to my childhood when I was working on this painting. In the 1970s, there were photos of actors and actresses holding up two fingers on packets of pickled plums. I couldn’t read anything then, so I didn’t know it was a peace symbol. But I felt…
Khin Maung Win
Written on September 2, 2020
Why did you choose this painting? Some people buy food when they go home in the evening. I liked this scene with people buying food from stalls on Pansodan Street, so I painted it. I always see the night market as I travel to and from the downtown area. In this painting, I describe my…
Chan Aye
Written on August 28, 2020
Why did you create this painting? This painting is a collaboration between me and Ko Aung Cheimt. I created the painting and he contributed the text from his poem. When we had a flood disaster in Myanmar in 2015, I sent this painting to an exhibition dedicated to donating the entire sales revenue to flood…
Zwe Yan Naing
Written on August 26, 2020
Why did you choose this painting? When I graduated from art school, I asked myself what kind of artist I wanted to be. As I’m a Myanmar artist, I wanted my paintings to represent Myanmar. I needed a character to represent economic and social images of Myanmar people. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi became my…
Htun Wei Myint
Written on August 21, 2020
Why did you create this painting? A photo was published in a book entitled Images of Ancient Myanmar. It was blurry and black-and-white. This painting is based on that photo. I changed the clothes a little. I also put the Shwedagon Pagoda of 2011 in the background. Then there weren’t too many buildings near the…
Zaw Min Thein
Written on August 20, 2020
Why did you create this painting? The title of this painting is ‘Waiting’. In life you sometimes have nothing to do but wait to go from one place to another. Then you keep waiting. There are also times you can’t do anything else. There are no opportunities. I created this painting from that feeling and…
Zaw Win Pe
Written on August 14, 2020
Why did you create this painting? Artists were requested to donate paintings for flood victims. So I sent the one I’d just completed to Nawaday Tharlar Gallery. I donated it because it shares a theme with the incident. After I graduated from art school, I started to paint in a realist style. Then, in 2004,…
Yan Naing Tun
Written on August 11, 2020
Why did you choose this painting? After I graduated from the University of Culture in 2002, I started to create green paintings. When I was painting monks, I wondered if I would still recognize them if I gave them green robes instead of saffron. Later I used the same colour to paint teashops. We have…