Myanmar
Art - Art from Myanmar
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Myanmar art can be considered somehow as
a Treasures and a Pleasures,
artworks in
the form of precious jewelry composition,
beautiful paintings, mostly with a religious
or Buddha theme, the precious Myanmar art in
the various pagodas in form of marble
sculptures, beautiful gold plated Buddha
images or statues, all kind of Myanmar
relief art depicting famous jakata stories.
A other
variant of Myanmar art are marvelous
woodcarvings and a very special Myanmar
art is “precious stones painting” where the
usual painted colors are substituted by
gemstones.
Words like
Myanmar, the Orient, the East etc. are
loaded with exotic imaginations of
indigenous identities. This is particular
evident in terms of art and cultural which
can be experienced by traveling to Myanmar
or just have a look for Myanmar art and
Thailand art in
various art shops and galleries in Bangkok
or Singapore.
The desire to
see and maybe own something different from
far away is for sure true fro Myanmar
art.
In Myanmar
art Buddhism, sometimes Hinduism and
Chinese culture are clearly evident.
Even in
contemporary Myanmar art one can see this
influence. Naturally contemporary
Myanmar art can be experienced in many
gallery exhibition in Yangon, Mandalay and
other places in Myanmar.
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Even in
contemporary Myanmar art one can see this
influence. Naturally
contemporary Myanmar art can be experienced
in many gallery exhibition in Yangon,
Mandalay and other places in Myanmar plus
Singapore and Hong Kong.
Myanmar art
exhibitions sometimes reach a
international audiences in Singapore via
private galleries but anyway the Myanmar art
infrastructure still needs lots of
improvement and should be open to a wider
audience. Maybe by government supported
exhibitions in Asia and elsewhere since
contemporary Myanmar art has
something to tell and this is not only
religion. Traditional Myanmar art has often
religious components included. Myanmar art
exhibitions show theology and show
that Myanmar artists are able to produce
paintings and other subjects on high
quality.
Myanmar woodcarving art
on can be found in the
handicraft section.
Modern Style Myanmar art Painting -oil on canvas- 5
Monks Walking
 
Myanmar Art Silver Table Ware is made from solid
silver not plated |
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Brightly colored
Buddhist paintings, driven by a deep ethical
impulse, let the viewer have a glimpse into
Buddhist with a high Myanmar Art brightly
colored Buddhist artistic value and reflecting
the culture.
More on Buddhist art.
Figurative art is mainly around the Buddha
theme, all kind of material like brass,
Myanmar Art Marble Buddha
bronze, marble, granite, wood etc. is used to
create Buddha statues, Buddha images and Buddha
sculptures.
A very
interesting form of Myanmar art is the creation
of fine silver ware. All Myanmar silver art
is made from solid silver not plated stuff as
you can see the Myanmar silver art items left.
Buddha figures
and sculpture come in many styles, sizes,
simple crafted or with objects attached and
maybe painted with simple colors and or gold
paint.
Myanmar art creation of fine silver ware.
At the
Bogyoke Aung San market in Yangon are plenty
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Myanmar Art Painting depicting 3 Novices
Myanmar Art creating Brass Buddha
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offering
all kind of Myanmar art painting
with Buddha themes and naturally themes around the nature, like lotus
flower, orchids and other.
Very popular
is Myanmar traditional art such as
statues of mythical beings, Myanmar
art paintings with a countryside theme like oxcart,
bullock cart on dusty roads, sailing ships on the
Ayeyarwady river and all variation of pagodas and
monasteries
Buddhist Painting in Myanmar -
Burma -
The paintings
below are from a exhibition in the Governors
Residence Hotel in
Yangon, Myanmar. |
Myanmar Market Scene
Painting |
Myanmar traditional art |
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Myanmar Art Painting Novice Reading |
Myanmar Art Painting with 3 Novices Front
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Traditional Myanmar art
has often religious theme. This
brightly colored Buddhist paintings, driven by a
deep ethical impulse, let the viewer have a glimpse
into Buddhism and show that Myanmar artists
are able to produce paintings and other subjects
with a high artistic value and reflecting the
culture.
The quality of paintings is excellent and a real
showcase of Buddhist art, distinctly Myanmar - Burma
in their visual elements.
Myanmar art has a lot in
common with
Thailand art. |
 
Myanmar Art Painting Monks Myanmar Art Painting |
Myanmar Art Gallery Painting |
A other
version of Myanmar art are the famous mural
paintings in the Pagodas and Temples of the
ancient city of Bagan in central Myanmar.
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Myanmar Art ancient fresco
or mural painting from a Bagan temple
Myanmar Art ancient fresco or mural painting inside a
Bagan temple
Myanmar Art ancient fresco or mural painting from a
Bagan temple depicting a palace
Myanmar Art ancient fresco or mural painting from a
Bagan temple depicting Buddha
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Mural or Fresco Myanmar
Art Paintings
Myanmar art of Frescoes or mural paintings adorn many
of Bagans monuments. Among other temples with the
best preserved frescoes are the Patothamya, Nagayon,
Abeyadana and Nanpaya.
The technique to create
this mural paintings is, first to smoothen the wall
to be painted with a mixture of lime, vegetable and
animal material, after it will let dry for a few days.
Now the master painter
draws the outline with chalk or ink, after this he will
apply colors with the help of his assistants.
Those colors are composed
of compounds made from vegetables, animals (mainly
fat) and locally available minerals.
The paintings have no perspective, instead lines of many
variations are drawn and pigments with strong colors are
used to create lively and expressive pictures.
The gaps between the
lines are filled with floral and geometric patterns
or just some creative inspiration of the artist.
Usually the frescoes tell
a story, this story is rendered in one picture with
many scenes divided by floral boundaries, some space is
left to write explanations. The main themes are jataka
stories very often blended with scenes of the daily life
of that time.
Myanmar Art ancient fresco or mural painting inside a
Bagan temple 1
Myanmar Art ancient fresco or mural painting from a
Bagan temple 6
Myanmar Art ancient fresco or mural painting from a
Bagan temple with a Buddha scene
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Myanmar Art ancient fresco or mural
painting from a Bagan temple 5
Myanmar Art ancient fresco or mural painting from a
Bagan temple 1
Myanmar Art ancient fresco or mural painting from a
Bagan temple 2
Myanmar Art ancient fresco or mural painting from a
Bagan temple 4
Myanmar Art ancient fresco or mural painting from a
Bagan temple 3
Myanmar Art Shwezigon Pagoda in Bagan
Myanmar Art a Bagan temple |
Myanmar Art - creating marble Buddha
sculptures in Bagan
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Myanmar Art Preparing Marble for Sculpturing |
Myanmar Art Marble Buddha Artist at Work |
Myanmar modern art very often centers on
Buddha portraits and Buddha marble
sculptures in a very new fashion way,
naturally there are some abstract art
attempts, its difficult to say something
since everyone interprets his own ideas into
it.
There are plenty of unique painting
creations of beautiful flower
composition art, maybe
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with some lotus flowers, orchids, native
landscape and quite a lot of
Chinese art painting themes.
Myanmar Art Photography, sometimes is
shown in the entrance to the pagodas. The
entrance walkways to temples and pagodas have
lots of small shops left and right, trying
to sell all kind of religious items plus Myanmar
art, you easily can find Myanmar art pieces of
beauty.
If you are in
Bagan have a look at the entrance to theAnanda
temple one famous Myanmar
Photographer Mr. Bagan Maung Maung will show
you plenty of stunning photos he made, real
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beautiful compositions, you wont find this
elsewhere.
Myanmar Artists are very creative to create
beautiful items made out of solid silver, not plated stuff.
A long-standing tradition in creating outstanding
silver items with distinctive Myanmar Art pattern reminds very much on antique
silver. Myanmar artist - silversmith are doing a excellent job, if one has some
special request to make some silver items it can be done, for a surprisingly low
price.
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Myanmar Art Silver Item could also
be used as back ground for a mirror |
Myanmar Art working the Silver
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So called cottage industries are
centered around the creation of all kind of
religious objects or decorative items.
They make beautiful marble Buddha images,
Buddha statues from alabaster, wood and
sometimes granite.
A continuous demand for
Buddha figures and
statues is almost sure, most are
donated to monasteries, temples and pagodas.
Many shops of this cottage
industries producing Buddhist Art are located near pagodas
and temples in Asian countries.
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A very special version of Myanmar Art is
lacquer art.
Lacquer is perhaps the most
distinctive and traditional of all Myanmar arts and the most
widely produced and used for the real worlds applied art.
Lacquer art was long a favorite of royalty for storing documents
and precious jewelries. You can find beautiful
lacquer art from Thailand with a little
bit more artistic flavor here.
Common households employed lacquer art
for everyday use such as keeping betel nuts and leaves or as soup bowls.
Monks use a black lacquer ware bowl known as thabeik when asking for alms.
Lacquer art - Lackarbeiten - from Myanmar Burma Birma was so highly
treasured that Myanmar’s kings often presented lacquer objects as gifts to
foreign emissaries.
Little is known of how the making of lacquer art - Lackarbeiten
-started in Myanmar Burma Birma, although some believe that it may have been
introduced from China’s Yunnan province. What is certain is that lacquer
ware is a traditional Myanmar craft that dates as far back as the 13th
century.
Valued for its artistic beauty and practical
qualities — it is light and watertight, for example — lacquer ware has
many applications. One can find lacquer ware ash trays, bowls, water jars,
vases, salvers for temple offerings, cups, jewellery boxes based on an
ancient design that double as pillows, traditional betel boxes, plates,
storage chests, tables and chairs.
Since art reflects the environment we have included a brief
writing on Buddhism
to give you a idea what is happening at the source of Buddhist
Art.
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Being critical of Buddhism isn't easy.
Buddhism
is the most likable of the major religions, and
Buddhists are the perennial good guys of modern
spirituality. Beautiful traditions, lovely architecture,
inspiring statuary, ancient golden Myanmar, the Dalai Lama —
what's not to like?
Everything about Buddhism is just so... nice. No fatwa's or
jihads, no inquisitions or crusades, no terrorists or
pederasts, just nice people being nice. In fact,
Buddhism means niceness. Nice-ism.
At least, it should.
Buddha means Awakened One, so Buddhism can be taken to
mean Awake-ism. Awakism. It would therefore be natural
to think that if you were looking to wake up, then
Buddhism, i.e., Awakism, would be the place to look.
The Light is Better Over Here
Such thinking, however, would reveal a dangerous lack of
respect for the opposition. Maya, goddess of
delusion, has been doing her job with supreme mastery
since the first spark of self-awareness flickered in
some chimp's noggin, and the idea that the neophyte
truth-seeker can just sign up with the Buddhists, read
some books, embrace some new concepts and slam her to
the mat might be a bit on the naive side.
On the other hand, why not? How’d this get so turned
around? It’s just truth. Shouldn’t truth be, like, the
simplest thing? Shouldn’t someone who wants to find
something as ubiquitous as truth be able to do so? And
here’s this venerable organization supposedly dedicated
to just that very thing, even named for it, so what’s
the problem?
Why doesn’t Buddhism produce Buddha's?
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The problem arises from the fact that Buddhists, like
everyone else, insist on reconciling the irreconcilable.
They don’t just want to awaken to the true, they also
want to make sense of the untrue. They want to have
their cake and eat it too, so they end up with
nonsensical theories, divergent schools, sagacious
doubletalk, and zero Buddha's.
Typical of Buddhist insistence on reconciling the
irreconcilable is the concept of Two Truths, a
poignant two-word joke they don’t seem to get, and yet
this sort of perversely irrational thinking is at the
very heart of the failed search for truth. We don’t want
truth, we want a particular truth; one that doesn't
threaten ego, one that doesn’t exist. We insist on a
truth that makes sense given what we know, not knowing
that we don't know anything.
Nothing about
Buddhism is more revealing than the Four
Noble Truths
which, not being true, are of pretty dubious nobility.
They form the basis of Buddhism, so it's clear from the
outset that the Buddhists have whipped up a proprietary version of truth
shaped more by market forces than any particular concern
for the less consumer-friendly, albeit true, truth.
Yes, Buddhism may be
spiritually filling, even nourishing, but insofar as
truth is concerned, it's junkfood. You can eat it every
day of your life and die exactly as Awakened as the day
you signed up.
Bait & Switch
Buddhism is a classic bait-and-switch operation. We’re
attracted by the enlightenment in the window, but as
soon as we’re in the door they start steering us over to
the compassion aisle. Buddhists could be honest and
change their name to Compassionism, but who wants that?
There's the rub. They can’t sell compassion and they
can’t deliver enlightenment.
This untruth-in-advertising is the kind of game you have
to play if you want to stay successful in a business
where the customer is always wrong. You can either go
out of business honestly, or thrive by giving the people
what they want. What they say they want and what they
really want, though, are two very different things.
Me Me Me
To the outside observer, much of Buddhist knowledge and
practice seems focused on spiritual self-improvement.
This, too, is hard to speak against... except within the
context of awakening from delusion. Then it's easy.
There is no such thing as true self, so any pursuit
geared toward its aggrandizement, betterment, upliftment,
elevation, evolution, glorification, salvation, etc, is
utter folly. How much more so any endeavor undertaken
merely to increase one's own happiness or contentment
or, I'm embarrassed to even say it, bliss?
Self is ego and ego is the realm of the dreamstate. If
you want to break free of the dreamstate, you must break
free of self, not stroke it to make it purr or groom it
for some imagined brighter future.
Maya's House of Enlightenment
The trick with being critical of so esteemed and beloved an
institution
is not to get dragged down into the morass of details
and debate. It's very simple: If Buddhism is about
enlightenment, people should be getting enlightened. If
it's not about enlightenment, they should change the
sign.
Of course, Buddhism isn't completely unique in its survival
tactics.
This same gulf between promise and performance is found
in all systems of human spirituality. We're looking at
it in Buddhism because that's where it's most
pronounced. No disrespect to the Buddha is intended. If
there was a Buddha and he was enlightened, then it's
Buddhism that insults his memory, not healthy
skepticism. Blame the naked emperor's retinue of tailors
and lickspittles, not the boy who merely states the
obvious.
Buddhism is arguably the most elevated of man's great belief
systems. If you want to enjoy the many valuable
benefits it has to offer, then I wouldn't presume to
utter a syllable against it. But if you want to escape
from the clutches of Maya, then I suggest you take a
very close look at the serene face on all those golden
statues to see if it isn't really hers. -Author Jed
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Some more
on Thai - Vietnamese - Myanmar Art
artstreammyanmar.net
amitmay.com
Aesthetic karma - Artifact - Buddhist
sculpture destroyed by Taliban Vandals
SHOULD THE BUDDHAS
destroyed by the Taliban be rebuilt? A group
called the New 7 Wonders Society wants to
recreate the bigger of the two blasted statues,
with the support of a U.N.-recognized Swiss
institute concerned with Afghan antiquities. The
society intends to show that "an act of
international destruction cannot erase the
memory of those things which are valuable to
humanity and its heritage."
Yet humanity's
memory of the statues is, to put it mildly,
mixed. They were largely unknown except to
specialists in Gandharan art, and were not
always admired even by them. Students of
Buddhist art generally preferred Sri Lankan
representations. Travelers despised the statues.
One 19th century description says that the sight
of them "sickens"; they were a "monstrous
flaccid bulk" and a "negation of sense." That
they'd once been used as target practice by
Muslim armies was regarded as no loss. As late
as 1973, they were pronounced "grotesque."
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"Those things which
are valuable to humanity and its heritage," it
seems, constitute a checklist subject to
dramatic revision. How did the Buddhas get on
the list? Perhaps because their destruction was
a perfect spectacle of barbarism. The
Taliban barbars also destroyed thousands of
artifacts in Kabul's museum, hammering at
statues for days. But there was no alerted
audience, no press attention, no video record,
no spectacle, and now, no program to recreate
any of them. Author
Charles Paul
Freund
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