Ba Nyan

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Ba Nyan
ဘဉာဏ်
British Burma
Died12 October 1945 (1945-10-13) (aged 48)
Ga Doe Village, Mawlamyine
NationalityBurmese
EducationBurma Art Club
Royal College of Art (London)
Yellow Door School
Known forPainting
MovementRangoon School

Ba Nyan (

Burmese painter who has been called the greatest name in modern painting in Myanmar.[1] His oil paintings were quiet and academic in their style, but display occasional flashes of virtuosity and brilliance in bold, impasto brushstroke and skillful handling of the medium.[2][3]

Early life

Ba Nyan was the fourth of six children, born in

Saya Ba Lwin. He was then appointed assistant drawing master at the Yangon High School.[4]

Success

The

Sir William Rothenstein, who helped him to take part in art exhibitions.[4]

He also met King George V in person, after he had saved one of the king's relatives from drowning.[1][5] When he returned to Burma in 1930, his experience in London had earned him a formidable reputation and he was able to mount one-man art exhibitions and received various commissions from the government and wealthy patrons.[4][5]

Back in Burma

In 1935 he married Sein Khaing. In 1939 he became principal of the Art School for Myanmar students.[1] In 1944, during the Japanese occupation, Ba Nyan led a group of artists that opened an Institute of Art, becoming the principal of the academy with Ba Kyi and San Win as instructors.[5][8] During this period, the war-time prime minister of Burma, U Ba Maw, traveled to Japan on official business and presented two of Ba Nyan's paintings to Kuniaki Koiso, the Japanese Prime Minister, and a third painting, a landscape of the Shwedagon Pagoda, entitled Night of the Shwedagon, to Emperor Hirohito. [3][5] By those who saw the last painting, it was considered one of Ba Nyan's most powerful works. Presumably, it is still in the Collection of the Japanese Imperial Household.

Another masterpiece by Ba Nyan is his oil painting U Ba O (1933) of his father, done with heavy use of chiaroscuro and impasto techniques, on permanent display in the National Museum of Myanmar.

Legacy

Ba Nyan played a key role in introducing western techniques to Myanmar artists.

Bogalay Kyaw Hlaing studied with Ba Nyan on an ad hoc basis; but there is no question that Ngwe Gaing's three or four years of studying with Ba Nyan on weekends had a large influence on Ngwe Gaing, who became regarded as the leading painter in Burma after Ba Nyan died.[3][9][10][11][12][13] Aung Soe also received some exposure to Ba Nyan while both of them were at the Institute of Art during the Japanese occupation period (above), but Aung Soe was very young then, barely 20, and their time together at the Academy was very short. As Aung Soe's path as an intensely modernist (abstract) painter, or as a painter in the Traditional mode, shows no clear influence of Ba Nyan, it is strictly speculation to wonder of the effects Ba Nyan may have had on Aung Soe.[3]

His death

Ba Nyan died on 12 October 1945 in Ga Doe Village,[14] shortly after the end of World War II.[4]

Museum and Library Collections

See also

Notes

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  4. ^ a b c d e "U BA NYAN (1897 - 1945)". Thavibu Gallery. Retrieved 2010-11-13.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Min Naing (1974). U Ba Nyan: His Life and Paintings (in Burmese). Sarpay Beikman.
  6. ^ Nyan Shein (1998). "U Ba Nyan (1897-1945)". On Burmese Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, Vol. 1 (in Burmese). Sarpay Beikman. pp. 121–124.
  7. ^ U THEIN HAN (February 1958). "Contemporary Burmese Art". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2010-11-13.
  8. ^ Khin Maung Nyunt; Sein Myo Myint (U.); Thanegi (Ma.) (2006). Myanmar painting: from worship to self-imaging. Education Pub. House. p. 53.
  9. ^ "Ngwe Gaing (1901 - 1967)". Gael Art. July 16, 2010.
  10. ^ Maung Lu Zaw (April 2000). "He Was a Great Artist". Myanmar Perspectives. Archived from the original on 2011-07-27. Retrieved 2010-11-13.
  11. ^ "REMINISCHNCES OF MYANMAR ART - ARTIST U AUNG KHIN (MANLADAY)". Retrieved 2010-11-13.[permanent dead link]
  12. ^ "Bogalay Kyaw Hlaing". Yadanapura. Retrieved 2010-11-13.
  13. ^ Ma Thanegi. "A brief history of Myanmar modern art". Chris Dodge Gallery. Archived from the original on 2010-10-23. Retrieved 2010-11-15.
  14. ^ "U Ba Nyan's tomb was rediscovered - Irrawaddy in Burmese".

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