Min Wae Aung
Min wae Aung (B. 1960, Myanmar)Min Wae Aung is often referred to as Burma's
greatest living artist, gaining worldwide notoriety and occupying exhibition
spaces across the globe. He studied very traditional art and his
experience as a commercial graphic artist and a visit to the USA in 1993,
encouraged him to employ a more contemporary style. He studied traditional
landscape and portrait painting at the State School of Fine Art in Yangoon
(Rangoon) and he has exhibited his work in the UK on various occasions, as
well as at international art fairs like Tresors and Taipei Art Fair
International. His works form part of private collections in the UK, USA,
Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia and Japan to name but a few, and he
has exhibited globally, including Paris, New York and Sydney etc."While his
present style of figure drawing is almost photographic, his composition is
intentionally contrived. Monks and nuns are arranged in aesthetically
pleasing compositions, always with a perfect sense of movement and energy in
his works" "The outlines of the brightly coloured, subtly shaded figures are
clearly delineated in black, against a background often executed in a
contrasting pointillist manner. This shimmering background seems to create
an aura around the figures, which are thrown into greater focus, giving them
an intense and luminous quality. They seem larger than life"
Hilary Binks, Asian Art Critic
