Myanmar Art - Art from Myanmar

A other version of Myanmar art are the famous mural paintings in the Pagodas and Temples of the ancient city of Bagan in central Myanmar.

Myanmar Art ancient fresco or mural painting from a Bagan temple Myanmar Art ancient fresco or mural painting inside a Bagan temple Myanmar Art ancient fresco or mural painting from a Bagan temple depicting a palace Myanmar Art ancient fresco or mural painting from a Bagan temple depicting Buddha Mural or Fresco Myanmar Art Paintings Myanmar art of Frescoes or mural paintings adorn many of Bagans monuments. Among other temples with the best preserved frescoes are the Patothamya, Nagayon, Abeyadana and Nanpaya. The technique to create this mural paintings is, first to smoothen the wall to be painted with a mixture of lime, vegetable and animal material, after it will let dry for a few days. Now the master painter draws the outline with chalk or ink, after this he will apply colors with the help of his assistants. Those colors are composed of compounds made from vegetables, animals (mainly fat) and locally available minerals. The paintings have no perspective, instead lines of many variations are drawn and pigments with strong colors are used to create lively and expressive pictures. The gaps between the lines are filled with floral and geometric patterns or just some creative inspiration of the artist. Usually the frescoes tell a story, this story is rendered in one picture with many scenes divided by floral boundaries, some space is left to write explanations. The main themes are jataka stories very often blended with scenes of the daily life of that time. Myanmar Art ancient fresco or mural painting inside a Bagan temple 1 Myanmar Art ancient fresco or mural painting from a Bagan temple 6 Myanmar Art ancient fresco or mural painting from a Bagan temple with a Buddha scene

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