by Min Zaw

Ordinary People 2013
91x121 cm
Min Zaw

Min Zaw was born in Yangon in 1972. He attended the State School of Fine Arts in Yangon from 1991 to 1994, and the University of Culture, Yangon from 1994 to 1998. He won an ASEAN Art Award in 2002. He is one of five artists working collectively at Studio Square Gallery in Yangon.

In this painting of ordinary people, old and new are mixed together. The technique of first sketching the outlines of the figures and then filling in the colours is old. The T-shirts are new. The different colours in the stripes provide the only real differentiation among the boys.