Khin Maung was a Burmese painter and sponsor of the arts who was influential in the art world of Mandalay, Myanmar.
10 Facts About Kin Maung
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Khin Kin Maung was born in 1910 at Tantse, Shwebo District, the second son of a merchant, and became interested in painting at an early age.
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Kin Maung began his formal training through a correspondence course from the London-based Press Art School in 1933.
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Kin Maung started drawing cartoons and commercial paintings in 1935.
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Kin Maung was interested in modern art and graphic art, and after World War II first began teaching these subjects to two young Mandalay artists, Win Pe and Paw Oo Thet, who would both, in turn, have a great impact on the movement in modernistic painting in Burma.
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Kin Maung wrote and gave workshops about modern art, explaining the principles to other artists.
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Khin Kin Maung helped organize art exhibitions in Mandalay and Yangon, and in 1971 he was one of the founders of Lokanat Galleries, an early art gallery in Yangon which is still active today.
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Kin Maung worked closely with other Mandalay artists such as Aye Kyaw, Ba Thet and Aung Khin.
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Kin Maung's work was not aggressively modernistic, but it did show cubist and other vanguard influences.
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The most provocative aspect of Khin Kin Maung's work is that in searching for a modernistic idiom which would suit Burma and not disenchant the conservative tendencies of Burmese culture, he deeply sought inspiration from the mural painting of Bagan, which was 800 years or so old.