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\" “When I began showing artists like Rauschenberg, Johns, and Warhol, there were good reactions, but also a great deal of resistance. I remember one French journalist who became very upset, waving his umbrella around a g...

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Mercury vs. Iron: Why the Peacock Gallery Was Myanmar’s First True Avant-Garde

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A Conversation About U Win Pe\nInterview by U Hlaing Bwa with Chris Dodge of BurmaModernArt.com

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In 1985, U Paw Thame was living in Hawaii, navigating his first year of exile after closing the doors to his iconic Peacock Gallery in Yangon. These three oils on canvas (20.5 x 20.5 inches each) serve as a poignant wind...

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U Win Pe sings a song for Chris and Orn. The song is a poem describing the first month of the Burmese calendar. He explains that this traditional music is 99.9% Tibetan Burman with almost no Chinese or Indian influence. ...

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In December 2009, I received a series of digital artworks from Paw Thame. These weren’t part of any formal exhibition — Paw Thame simply shared them by email with me, Win Pe, and a few artist friends.

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New York Times: How a Vast Demographic Shift Will Reshape the World

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Old Friends Reunited: U Win Pe Shares His Thoughts on Buddha with Chris at their meeting June 2025

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Preface\n To I Am Cadmium Red: A Memoir by U Paw Thame

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Last week, Orn and I had the pleasure of visiting our dear friend, U Win Pe. We’re deeply grateful to Mie Mie Win Pe and the family for making it possible. It was a joy to see him again.

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In 2009, U Paw Thame shared with me a photo of a watercolor painting by U Win Pe. The artwork was created in 1995 during U Paw Thame's visit to U Win Pe’s home in New York City, where they painted together. U Win Pe gift...

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Win Pe explains Aung Soe’s instinctive, subconscious creations. Unaware of his groundbreaking uniqueness, Aung Soe poured his soul into his work, but faced profound struggles with depression. Win Pe, his closest confida...

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","url":"https://burmamodernart.com/essays/f/u-win-pe-talks-about-bagyi-aung-soe","title":"U Win Pe Talks about Bagyi Aung Soe","date_modified":"2025-01-27T22:44:10Z"},{"id":"u-win-pe-the-experimental-artist-nov-2023-interview-vol-7","html_content":"

","url":"https://burmamodernart.com/essays/f/u-win-pe-the-experimental-artist-nov-2023-interview-vol-7","title":"U Win Pe, The Experimental Artist, Nov 2023 Interview Vol 7","date_modified":"2025-01-13T23:28:07Z"},{"id":"u-win-pe-discusses-modern-art-today-2023-video-vol-6","html_content":"

","url":"https://burmamodernart.com/essays/f/u-win-pe-discusses-modern-art-today-2023-video-vol-6","title":" U Win Pe Discusses Modern Art Today, 2023 Video, Vol 6","date_modified":"2025-01-09T03:30:25Z"},{"id":"paw-oo-thett-with-paw-thame-u-win-pe-2023-interview-vol-5","html_content":"

","url":"https://burmamodernart.com/essays/f/paw-oo-thett-with-paw-thame-u-win-pe-2023-interview-vol-5","title":"Paw Oo Thett with Paw Thame, U Win Pe 2023 Interview Vol 5","date_modified":"2025-01-07T01:55:44Z"},{"id":"u-win-pes-biographer-complains-2023-video-vol-4","html_content":"

","url":"https://burmamodernart.com/essays/f/u-win-pes-biographer-complains-2023-video-vol-4","title":"U Win Pe's \"Biographer\" Complains, 2023 Video Vol 4","date_modified":"2025-01-02T16:31:38Z"},{"id":"u-win-pe-nov-14-2023-interview-vol-3","html_content":"

November 2023 Interview Vol 3 with Myanmar Renaissance Man U Win Pe. One of Myanmar's most revered painters, he has also been a writer, movie director, editor and writer at Radio Free Asia. U Win Pe's weekly talk show on...

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","url":"https://burmamodernart.com/essays/f/u-win-pe-interview-november-2023-vol-2","title":"U Win Pe Interview November 2023 Vol 2","date_modified":"2024-12-18T23:16:32Z"},{"id":"interview-u-win-pe-returns-to-writing","html_content":"

","url":"https://burmamodernart.com/essays/f/interview-u-win-pe-returns-to-writing","title":"Interview: U Win Pe Returns to Writing","date_modified":"2024-12-17T00:51:03Z"},{"id":"i-am-proud-to-be-a-myanmar-citizen-u-paw-thame-2009","html_content":"

","url":"https://burmamodernart.com/essays/f/i-am-proud-to-be-a-myanmar-citizen-u-paw-thame-2009","title":"I am Proud to Be a Myanmar Citizen, U Paw Thame, 2009","date_modified":"2024-11-30T01:00:00Z"},{"id":"two-great-watercolor-artists-meet-in-new-york","html_content":"

U Win Pe Visits Dong Kingman's Apartment. The Great Burmese American Meets the Great Chinese American Artist Dong Kingman. YouTube Video Interview June, 2022 Vol. 7

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Chris and U Win Pe at the Abraham Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C 2009

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","url":"https://burmamodernart.com/essays/f/u-win-pe-discovers-and-befriends-modernist-icon-u-paw-thame","title":"U Win Pe Discovers and Befriends Modernist Icon U Paw Thame","date_modified":"2024-11-12T00:13:53Z"},{"id":"u-win-pe-i-do-not-want-to-become-a-big-guy-with-big-problems","html_content":"

ဒီဇင်ဘာလ 16 ရက် 2008 ခုနှစ် အီးမေးလ်

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Join us for an insightful interview with U Win Pe, Myanmar’s most influential living artist. In this compelling conversation with Chris, recorded on June 28, 2022, U Win Pe reflects on his artistic journey and shares his...

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","url":"https://burmamodernart.com/essays/f/u-paw-thame-email-about-beikthano-show-december-2008","title":"U Paw Thame Email about Beikthano Show December 2008","date_modified":"2024-10-24T19:44:19Z"},{"id":"modernist-master-u-win-pe-finds-his-style-2022-interview-4","html_content":"

Modernist Master

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WP ရဲ့ ပန်းချီကားတွေအကြောင်း ပြောပြပါရစေ။ KMY ရဲ့ အနုပညာအကြောင်း ပြောတာကို သဘောကျတယ်၊ အနုပညာနဲ့ ပတ်သက်တဲ့ သူရေးတာကို ပိုကြိုက်တယ်။ DESIGN တည်ဆောက်မှု၊ ဒီဇိုင်းသဘောနှင့် DESIGN ၏ဇာတ်ကောင်များကို သင်နားလည်ပါသလား။ DESIGN နှ...

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","url":"https://burmamodernart.com/essays/f/burmamodernartcom-video-interview-with-u-win-pe-vol-3","title":"BurmaModernArt.com Video Interview with U Win Pe Vol. 3","date_modified":"2024-10-07T18:53:53Z"},{"id":"u-win-pe-masters-the-lotus-pond-with-u-ba-thet","html_content":"

","url":"https://burmamodernart.com/essays/f/u-win-pe-masters-the-lotus-pond-with-u-ba-thet","title":"U Win Pe 2022 Video Interview: My Early Days with U Ba Thet","date_modified":"2024-10-02T22:45:45Z"},{"id":"u-win-pe-a-maestro-of-watercolor-landscapes-in-asia","html_content":"

U Win Pe's artistic journey began in his youth when his father sent him to study under the renowned Mandalay painter, U Ba Thet.

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Peacock Gallery မှာ အဖွဲ့တစ်ဖွဲ့အနေနဲ့ လုပ်ခဲ့ပါတယ်။ သတိရမိတာကတော့ အထူးသဖြင့် ယောက်ျားတွေကြားမှာ ခင်မင်ရင်းနှီးမှုပါပဲ။ Paw Thame သည် ပြခန်းကိုလည်ပတ်ပုံနှင့်ပတ်သက်၍ အလွန်တင်းကျပ်ပြီး ကျွန်ုပ်တို့အားလုံးသည် ဝါးတိုင်များဖြ...

","url":"https://burmamodernart.com/essays/f/ma-thanegi--%E1%80%A5%E1%80%92%E1%80%B1%E1%80%AB%E1%80%84%E1%80%BA%E1%80%B8%E1%80%95%E1%80%BC%E1%80%81%E1%80%94%E1%80%BA%E1%80%B8%E1%80%A1%E1%80%99%E1%80%BE%E1%80%90%E1%80%BA%E1%80%90%E1%80%9B%E1%80%99%E1%80%BB%E1%80%AC%E1%80%B8","title":"Ma Thanegi- ဥဒေါင်းပြခန်းအမှတ်တရများ Burma modern art","date_modified":"2024-06-09T08:00:00Z"},{"id":"paw-thame-%E1%80%80-%E1%80%A6%E1%80%B8%E1%80%9D%E1%80%84%E1%80%BA%E1%80%B8%E1%80%96%E1%80%B1%E1%80%94%E1%80%B2%E1%80%B7-%E1%80%90%E1%80%BD%E1%80%B1%E1%80%B7%E1%80%86%E1%80%AF%E1%80%B6%E1%80%95%E1%80%AB%E1%80%90%E1%80%9A%E1%80%BA%E1%81%8B","html_content":"

“တစ်နေ့မှာ ဦးဝင်းဖေက သူ့ဗြိတိသျှလုပ် Austin ဆီဒင်ကားနဲ့ မန္တလေးတက္ကသိုလ်မှာ ကျွန်တော့်ကို လာတွေ့တယ်။ ကျွန်ုပ်၏ သိုလှောင်ခန်း တိုက်ခန်းရှေ့တံခါးကို ခေါက်လိုက်သည်။ ခေတ်မီပန်းချီကားများ ရေးဆွဲရာတွင် ကျွန်ုပ်၏ အရူးအမူး အကြော...

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“My Rangoon life was with Bagyi Aung Soe & Sonny Nyein. Before I even met Ko Sonny, I began discussing 'Designs' with Aung Soe. I used to call Bagyi Aung Soe “ULAY”.

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The Throne

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\"Snack Stand by the White House\"

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Imagine two art legends, Win Pe and Paw Thame, united by a deep friendship and a shared passion for painting. Now, picture them embarking on a week-long creative adventure in the heart of Washington DC, with the iconic D...

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Li-Hsu, Paw Thame, 1977,

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Pyae Sone Kyaw, a scholar of Myanmar modern art, wrote in to say he sees the influence of U Aung Khin in these artworks by Paw Thame. Very interesting. Paw Thame loved his mentor Aung Khin. However, he claimed he was ...

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U Win Pe directing puppet show with Sonny Nyein, Ma Thanegi and the Peacock Gallery gang. Photo by Paw Thame. ca. 1980

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","url":"https://burmamodernart.com/essays/f/ma-thanegi-burma-modern-art","title":"Ma Thanegi, Burma Modern Art","date_modified":"2023-11-12T21:05:23Z"},{"id":"remembering-kin-maung-yin","html_content":"

I met Kin Maung Yin at U Win Pe’s school. I love him too. One time, I brought Kin Maung Yin to my hometown of Shwebo. Another time, I invited Paw Oo Thett to be my art-guest at my village. ---Paw Thame, I am Cadmium Red

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\"Subjects are not matters, Art is still Matter for me.  I am going, doing that way from 1965 to today. My concepts are crystal clear. But ordinary people and some critics cannot understand .  I did not make 'the art of...

","url":"https://burmamodernart.com/essays/f/sonny-nyein-my-forever-artist-friend","title":"Sonny Nyein: My Forever Artist Friend","date_modified":"2023-10-18T17:03:14Z"},{"id":"remembering-old-friends-sonny-nyein","html_content":"

This is a rare Sonny Nyein watercolor. Sonny gave it to Paw Thame. Paw Thame gave it to me. When I learned Sonny had died I gave it to Win Pe.

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This 1975 Paw Thame work is the same year he did the portrait honoring U Thant which was highlighted in the previous post. On the back of the painting is Paw Thame's Lokanut Gallery business card. On the card there is ...

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