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San Win’s chief subject in his work was the famous religious monuments and sites of Burma, though he did also do more secular landscapes of ordinary life. He did very few portraits and very few still life. Almost all of his work is in oil. In some of his oil works, he used the impasto technique where
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San Win graduated from
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on a colonial stipend where he was taught
European styles of oil painting in more academic and professional settings. When Ba Nyan returned to Burma permanently in 1930, he passed on his accomplished painting skills to many other Burmese painters. While San Win was never one of Ba Nyan's official
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Despite his heavy responsibilities as a teacher and art official, San Win managed to produce a healthy amount of his work in his life, and he would be regarded by almost any scholar of 20th century
Burmese painting as one of the top dozen or so painters of his time. He is particularly known for
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years, like many of the major painters of Burma, he remained active, working as an instructor at the
Institute of Art, established by the Japanese during their period of war occupation in Burma.
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the same year, he accepted a position as an art official in the
Department of Education. In 1939, when the State School of Art and Music opened, he became its first principal. During the
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advancing impressionism in Burma. Thein Han, the writer, not the painter, said of him, "In landscapes whose contrasts of light and shade sometimes recall the impressionism of
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cultural exchange program, in which he visited and studied art education in
England, the USA, Italy, France, Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand, and perhaps other countries.
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do not appear and this can be called a signature element in his work. The color yellow also appears more lightly in his skies but it is not overbearing.
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380:Nyan Shein (1998). "U San Win (1905-1981)".
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171:Career as a teacher and art official
212:Innovator of Burmese impressionism
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426:U Ba Nyan: His Life and Paintings
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322:The Atlantic monthly, Volume 201
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152:British colonial period in Burma
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