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It’s still spring and bagyiaungsoe.com opens with Beginnings!
The website features a selection of works under a chosen thematic every other season. For Spring 2009, we are looking at 27 works from the early part of the artist’s career. Apart from the curatorial essay, you can expect at least one article in Burmese each time – with its translation in English - that is available for download. It is hoped that the entries of varied length at depth will stimulate the beholder’s engagement with the works, not so much due to the value of the author’s opinions but the perspectives they hopefully open up.
The website is created for the purpose of generating exchanges and advancing the appreciation of - if not scholarship on – Aung Soe’s art. If you have comments on ways of improving the website, or of taking the author’s examination and discussion of the artist further, that would be delightful.
Here at Bagyi Aung Soe’s Blog, meet to share thoughts on the artist’s work, participate in polls, or simply browse old photographs.
Bonne visite !
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Title unknown . 1944 . Pen on paper . 175 x 145 mm
Family Collection, Yangon
This image shows an original work; it is not a photograph of a magazine illustration. To date, it is the earliest known work …
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1948 June . Taya . c. quarter-page
One of Aung Soe’s earliest work in Taya, this illustration depicts a Myanma woman and a child in contemporary attire. The mode of …
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1949 July . Taya . c. quarter-page
You don’t understand is the title of the text for which this illustration was commissioned. It represents two uproarious men in …
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1949 August . Taya . c. sixth-of-page
Aung Soe came from a privileged background. His father was a high-ranking police commissioner and he did not seem to have been in …
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1950 . Yaung-hkyi-thit . Full-page
Appearing on the cover of a magazine, this illustration signed Aung Soe in Burmese is one of the most surprising in its …
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1950 May . Kyemon . c. quarter-page
The violence expressed in this illustration makes it one of the greatest departures ever from Aung Soe’s inclination for …
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1952 April . Shumawa . Full-page
Photograph: Yangon University Central Library
The Land of Festivities makes a direct reference to India, with the contours of the subcontinent traced out below the title. The …
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