Paw Thame | |
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| Born | 1948 |
| Died | 2014 |
| Nationality | Burmese American |
| Education | Studied with Aung Khin and Kin Maung (Bank) |
| Known for | Painting, Modern artist, Author of I Am Cadmium Red, his Portrait of U Thant |
| Movement | Modernism |
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).[1] 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".[2][3]
- ^ Ker, Yin (2017). "Felicitous "Misalignments": Bagyi Aung Soe's Manaw Maheikdi Dat Pangyi". Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia. 1 (2): 9–40. doi:10.1353/sen.2017.0012. ISSN 2425-0147.
- ^ Nyan Shein (1998). "Bagyi Ang Soe (1924-1990)". On Burmese Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, Vol. 2 (in Burmese). Sarpay Beikman. pp. 177–185.
- ^ "Synthesis of Myanmar Modernity, Interview with Myanmar Artist U Win Pe".