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Thein Han (painter)

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composition. He taught at the State School of Fine Arts until the age of 67. It was here at the State School of Fine Arts, that he left a large impact on the subsequent development of Burmese painting, passing down the techniques of realist and naturalist painting which he had learned from Ba Nyan. It must be said that his taste in painting was conservative, yet he also steeped Burmese painters in a solid, formal foundation of techniques.
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Thein Han is a transitional figure in many ways. His own instruction came entirely through his apprenticeship with Ba Nyan, but he later became an instructor in a government school where his exposure to students was wide and not always intimate. Yet he tried to retain the intimacy of the old apprenticeship system by inviting students to his home to learn.
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painting, and six silver medals awarded by the Burma Artists’ Association. Despite this impressive array of awards, which do indicate his standing and respect in the Burmese art community, the long list must be taken with a grain of salt for in Burma associations that have little do with art or with
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Thein Han, however, spent an unusual nine years studying with Ba Nyan and never rebelled against his style and thus remained a realist and naturalist throughout his painting career. For this reason, he was sometimes referred to as the "second U Ba Nyan" in Burma, a sobriquet that was not necessarily
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Because so many art students came in contact with him as an instructor at the Rangoon State School of Fine Arts or as a master-in-residence at his home, he influenced a great many of the painters who were born in the 1940s and still paint in Burma today, influenced distantly by the work of Ba Nyan.
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While a teacher at the Rangoon School of Fine Arts and after his retirement, Thein Han often invited students to his home for lessons. After retirement he volunteered to teach for the Yangon University Art Club, and had classes at his home twice a week. In the history of Burmese painting pedagogy,
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Like Ba Nyan, some of Thein Han's best works are portraits, but he also did landscapes and still life. His son, Han Htut, has written an unpublished article on his father's history, entitled “Artist U Thein Han (1910-1986)” which lists 16 of his most important oil works. But perhaps three score or
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Before World War II, Thein Han took a position as a drawing teacher as Myin Chan High School in Central Burma. After the war, when the government opened up the Rangoon State School of Fine Arts in 1952, he joined the staff as an instructor of oil and watercolor painting, with an emphasis on color
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When Thein Han was in the tenth grade of secondary school, he encountered the work of Ba Nyan through an elder brother who knew Ba Nyan. From that point forward, he became obsessed with the art of painting and asked his parents to send him to art school but was turned down. Thus, he ran away from
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era who produced a number of memorable works and who had an abiding influence on the evolution of the more conservative painting styles in Burma in the decades that followed. He should not be confused with Thein Han the writer and art critic, who is often quoted for his article written on Burmese
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had spent long periods studying with Ba Nyan but not as a live-in apprentices at his home. In Burma, there is a certain sentimental attachment to those painters who studied under Ba Nyan as full-fledged apprentices, perhaps because this training was reminiscent of the training painters of the
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studies. This cousin, U Pandisa, introduced him to Ba Nyan and Ba Nyan accepted him as an apprentice. His birth name had been Maung Sit and Ba Nyan gave him the new name of Thein Han.
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Thein Han was not a zealously prolific painter, yet a number of his works are famous in Burma, particularly three oil paintings:
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style of painting. Ba Kyi initiated a Neo-Traditional revival in the post-World War II period and Aung Khin became an
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home to Yangon, where he stayed at U Ahdissawunssa's monastery, where a cousin was studying
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Ba Nyan's two other apprentices who studied under him formally at his home —
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Maung Han Htut (c. 2006). "Artist U Thein Han (1910-1986)". Unpublished.
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Andrew Ranard (2009). "The Early Rangoon School: The Torch-Bearers".
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The Great Master Myanmar Artist U Thein Han's Descendant U Lun Gywe
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The Great Master Myanmar Artist U Thein Han’s Descendant U Lun Gywe
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Two of Thein Han's most notable students were the major painters
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During Thein Han's painting career, he won six gold metals for
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Traditional School had received as far as memory could recall.
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in 1930. Three of these apprentices became major painters in
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little knowledge of it, are prone to give out such awards.
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On Burmese Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, Vol. 2
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and Thein Han was one of them. Other painters such as
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Index

Burmese
Painting
Burmese
[θéɪɰ̃hàɰ̃]
Yangon
World War II
Atlantic Monthly
apprentices
Ba Nyan
London
Burma
Ngwe Gaing
Kyaw Hlaing
Ba Kyi
Aung Khin
realist
naturalist
impressionist
abstract expressionist
non-figurative abstract
Buddhistic
oil painting
watercolor
Lun Gywe
Ba Yin Galay
Ba Kyi
Aung Khin


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