{{Short description|Burmese painter}} {{For|the mayor of Yangon|Aung Khin (mayor)}} {{family name hatnote|lang=Burmese|Aung Khin}} {{Infobox artist | name = Aung Khin | native_name = {{lang|my|အောင်ခင်}} | Born = | image = U Aung Khin.jpg | caption = Self Portrait, 1960 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1921|02|13}} | birth_place = Monywa District, British Burma | death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1996|4|13|1921|2|13}} | death_place = Mandalay, Myanmar | field = Painting | training = Apprentice to Ba Nyan | movement = Mandalay School, Impressionism, Expressionism, Cubism, Non-Figurative Abstract Painting | works = | influenced = | patrons = | awards = First Prize, All Burma Competition (1952, USIS Sponsored) }}
'''Aung Khin''' ({{langx|my|အောင်ခင်}} {{IPA|my|ʔàʊɰ̃ kʰɪ̀ɰ̃|}}, 13 February 1921 – 14 May 1996) was a Burmese painter who became prominent in the Mandalay art world. He is well known as one of the foremost and earliest of modernistic painters in Burma.
==Training, memberships, and associations== Aung Khin was born on 13 February 1921 in Nat Kyun Aung Myay village, Hsalingyi township, Monywa district, the youngest of seven children. His uncle and brothers ran a mixed art workshop, where he studied from the age of twelve. When he was sixteen, he moved to Yangon to study for five years as an apprentice under the London-trained Ba Nyan,<ref name=ARTISTUAUNGKHIN/> whose works were primarily in a naturalistic and realistic vein.
In 1947 Aung Khin moved to Mandalay where he married Tin Tin Aye. He became active in the Mandalay Artist's Association, and eventually became Secretary and President of the association. In Mandalay, he became an associate of Kin Maung (Bank).,<ref name=magic/> a well-known Mandalay artist who proselytized heavily for a modernistic movement in painting in Burma through sponsoring workshops and writing papers.
In 1978 he and his daughter Cho Cho Aung, also a painter, set up the Panthu Sanda Children's Art Centre.<ref name=ArtStream/> In 1981 he was elected vice president of the Traditional Art Association, and in 1994 he was made patron of the Mandalay Artists Association. In 1996 he started the Yellow Art Gallery in Mandalay, named after Frank Spenlove-Spenlove's Yellow Door School in London where Ba Nyan had studied. The Yellow Art Gallery is today run by his daughter Cho Cho Aung.
==Early recognition== In 1952 Aung Khin won first prize for an oil painting in a USIS-sponsored All Burma Competition,<ref name=Ranard/><ref name=Printz/> and in 1960-61 he had several one-man shows in Mandalay and Yangon,<ref name=ARTISTUAUNGKHIN/><ref name=Ranard/> one of which was sponsored by the Burma-America Institute.<ref name=Ranard/>
==Oeuvre== Aung Khin's work largely reflected the European influence of the colonial-era Burmese artists.<ref name=SoutheastAsianPictures/> This included impressionism, what has been described as a ''conceptual expressionism''<ref name=Ranard262/> and other forms of abstract painting,<ref name=Maharnadi/> including cubism.<ref name=Printz/><ref name=Ranard262/> However, he attempted to develop a uniquely Burmese style in his work,<ref name=ARTISTUAUNGKHIN/> often rendering figures in his expressionist paintings with bold outlines and strong color contrast showing influence of the ancient mural painting of Bagan.<ref name=Ranard260-262/>
One of his more intriguing explorations was using abstract non-figurative painting as a means to express Buddhist concepts beyond the earthly (difficultly-visualized) realm,<ref name=Ranard262-263/> or one might say life after death in Brahmaloka and Devaloka, asking "How shall I draw the abode of Man and Deva?"<ref name=NIE/>
His wife died in June 1994. After his wife died, perhaps realizing that his days left were numbered, he became extremely prolific, painting night and day.<ref name=Amar1997/> When he died, he left in the vicinity of 100 unsold paintings in his home in the care of his daughter Cho Cho Aung.<ref name=Amar1997/> His Buddhist paintings were among these last works.<ref name=Ranard262/> Aung Khin died on 14 May 1996.<ref name=ARTISTUAUNGKHIN/>
==Museum collections== * Singapore Art Museum
==See also== * Ba Nyan * Kin Maung (Bank) * Paw Oo Thet
==Notes== {{Reflist|1|refs= <ref name=ARTISTUAUNGKHIN>{{cite web |url = http://artistuaungkhin.com/ |title = ARTIST U AUNG KHIN |author = Than Tun |author-link = Than Tun |access-date = 2010-11-14 }}{{Dead link|date=October 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> <ref name=ArtStream>{{cite web |url=http://www.artstreammyanmar.net/cultural/Pandu/pandu.htm |title=Panthu Sanda Fine Arts Centre and Children's Art Training School |work=ArtStream Myanmar |access-date=2010-11-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110511185502/http://www.artstreammyanmar.net/cultural/Pandu/pandu.htm |archive-date=2011-05-11 }}</ref> <ref name=magic> {{cite web |url=http://www.magicartartgallery.com/arthistory/?v=detail&id1=46&rec=P-267 |title=Mandalay Zaycho |publisher=Magic Art Gallery |access-date=2010-11-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101102080236/http://magicartartgallery.com/arthistory/?v=detail&id1=46&rec=P-267 |archive-date=2 November 2010 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }} </ref> <ref name=Maharnadi>{{cite web |url = http://maharnadiartgallery.com/maharnadi/profile.aspx?art=art10 |title = Tun Sein |work = Mahanadi |access-date = 2010-11-14 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110714021132/http://maharnadiartgallery.com/maharnadi/profile.aspx?art=art10 |archive-date = 2011-07-14 |url-status = dead }}</ref> <ref name=NIE>{{cite web |url = http://www.vpa.nie.edu.sg/visual/collect.html |title = Exhibitors at The Art Gallery since July 2003 |publisher = National institute of education - Singapore |access-date = 2010-11-14 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110429090329/http://www.vpa.nie.edu.sg/visual/collect.html |archive-date = 2011-04-29 |url-status = dead }}</ref> <ref name=SoutheastAsianPictures>{{cite web |url = http://www.southeastasianpictures.com/list.php?cid=3 |title = Myanmar Art Past & Present |work = Southeast Asian Pictures |access-date = 2010-11-14 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100911211140/http://www.southeastasianpictures.com/list.php?cid=3 |archive-date = 2010-09-11 |url-status = dead }}</ref> <ref name=Ranard>{{cite book |page=215 |title=Burmese Painting: A Linear and Lateral History |author=Andrew Ranard |publisher=Silkworm Books |year=2009 |isbn=978-974-9511-76-3}}</ref> <ref name=Ranard262-263>{{cite book |pages=262–263 |title=Burmese Painting: A Linear and Lateral History |author=Andrew Ranard |publisher=Silkworm Books |year=2009 |isbn=978-974-9511-76-3}}</ref> <ref name=Ranard262>{{cite book |page=262 |title=Burmese Painting: A Linear and Lateral History |author=Andrew Ranard |publisher=Silkworm Books |year=2009 |isbn=978-974-9511-76-3}}</ref> <ref name=Printz>{{cite journal |title=A Form of Cubism |author= Peggy Printz |journal=The Asia Magazine |pages=11–14 |date=April 29, 1973}}</ref> <ref name=Amar1997>{{cite book |title=Modern Burmese Painting |author=Amar, (Ludu Daw) |publisher=Yarbye Press and Kyibwa Press |year=1997 |language=Burmese}}</ref> <ref name=Ranard260-262>{{cite book |pages=260–262 |title=Burmese Painting: A Linear and Lateral History |author=Andrew Ranard |publisher=Silkworm Books |year=2009 |isbn=978-974-9511-76-3}}</ref> }}
==Bibliography== * {{cite book|title=Burmese Painting : A Linear and Lateral History|isbn=978-974-9511-76-3|last=Ranard|first=Andrew|publisher=Silkworm Books|year=2009|chapter=The Modernist Movement: The Outsiders|pages=254–263}} *{{cite book |title=Reminiscences of Myanmar Art |author=Aung Khin |translator=Than Tun |translator-link=Than Tun |publisher=Cape |year=1998}} * {{cite book| title=Modern Burmese Painting|last=Amar| first=Ludu Daw|authorlink=Ludu Daw Amar | publisher=Yarbye Press and Kyibwa Press|year=1997|language=Burmese}}
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