Background
Kyaw Hlaing was born on 28 September 1914 in Bogalay (in the present-day Ayeyarwady Region), son of wealthy parents with an interest in art
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Kyaw Hlaing
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He studied art at Aid National Middle School.
Career
Due to his mastery of the technique of painting clouds, he was sometimes called "Cloudy Kyaw Hlaing". At the age of 18, with Ba Kyi, Aye Maung and Thein Han, he became a student under the master Ba Nyan, who had learned European oil painting techniques in London. After the Second World War he entered a national painting competition, winning prizes in the still life, figure and landscape categories, and the overall gold prize.
He found work as an art instructor in Bogalay, later moving to Yangon where he taught in high schools for many years.
After retiring, he was appointed an instructor at the Yangon Fine Arts school, teaching third-year students. His pupils included Minister Wae Aung, Zaw Zaw Aung, Hla Tun, Zaw Win Pe and Kyaw Shein.
Kyaw Hlaing was a handsome man with a wiry, towering frame. Two of his students, Minister Wae Aung and Zaw Zaw Aung, painted portraits of him.
One of these works by Zaw Zaw Aung, an ironic oil painting titled Portrait of U Kyaw Hlaing: Visit Myanmar Year 1996 (1995), was done when Kyaw Hlaing had passed the age of 80.
lieutenant captured only the lower part of his body in a longyi with his withered legs crossed and his upper body hidden by a newspaper he was reading. lieutenant is in the collection of the Singapore Art Museum. He painted until his last days.
He died at the age of 82 on 13 April 1996.
National Museum of Myanmar.
Personality
He was a calm and taciturn person with a taste for tea and cigars, always helpful to his fellow artists.
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Nationality
Burmese