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‘Dark and Muddy’

ေနာက္က်ိက်ိျဖစ္ေနတဲ့ အေမွာင္ေတြ

The words above are to describe late Artist Min Kyi’s art. To be exact, his brown and grey tones are unique and distinct - his works are murky, dark and depressing. One famous artist from Myanmar once said like this: “When you look at his paintings, you will see so many colors mixed into the artwork. He is one of two artists in Myanmar who could do that”.

အထက္က စကားလံုးေတြဟာ ကြယ္လြန္ခဲ့ၿပီျဖစ္တဲ့ ပန္းခ်ီဆရာမင္းၾကည္ရဲ႕လက္ရာေတြကို ကုိယ္စားျပဳပါတယ္။ အတိအက်ေျပာရရင္ သူ အသံုးျပဳတဲ့ အညိဳနဲ႔မီးခိုးေရာင္အႏုအရင့္ဟန္က တစ္မူထူးၿပီး ကြဲထြက္ေနတယ္။ သူ႔လက္ရာေတြက မိႈင္းတယ္၊ အေမွာင္မ်ားတယ္၊ စိတ္ဓာတ္က်စရာ ေကာင္းတယ္။ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံရဲ႕နာမည္ေက်ာ္ပန္းခ်ီဆရာတစ္ေယာက္က တစ္ခါက အခုလိုေျပာခဲ့ပါတယ္။ “မင္းၾကည္ရဲ႕ပန္းခ်ီကားေတြကို ၾကည့္ရင္၊ လက္ရာတစ္ခုတည္းမွာ အေရာင္အမ်ားႀကီးကို ေရာေႏွာထည့္ထားတာ ေတြ႔ရလိမ့္မယ္။ ျမန္မာျပည္က ဒီလိုဆြဲႏုိင္တဲ့ ပန္းခ်ီဆရာႏွစ္ေယာက္ထဲမွာ သူက တစ္ေယာက္အပါအ၀င္ပါပဲ”

But Min Kyi had had a hard life like many others in Myanmar those days. He was born in 1940 to a farming family of a small village. In those days in Myanmar, there was civil war occurring throughout the country. His father was accused of being an informer by the rebels and vanished from the family. Min Kyi studied at a monastery for elementary education. He showed his early love for art. In 1955, while he was in middle school, he met two famous artists and studied the fundamentals until 1958. He also learnt on perspectives and outdoors-painting by copying works of famous European artists. This was the time when his passion for art was fully materialized under those influences.

မင္းၾကည္ဟာ အဲဒီေခတ္ကာလက ျမန္မာျပည္မွာေနခဲ့ၾကတဲ့လူေတြလိုပဲ ခက္ခဲၾကမ္းတမ္းတဲ့ဘ၀ကို ျဖတ္သန္းခဲ့ရတယ္။ သူဟာ ၁၉၄၀ ခုႏွစ္မွာ လယ္သမားမိသားစုတစ္ခုကေန ေမြးဖြားခဲ့တာပါ။ အဲဒီအခ်ိန္က ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံအႏွံ႔မွာ ျပည္တြင္းစစ္ျဖစ္ေနခဲ့ပါတယ္။ သူ႔အေဖကို လည္း ေတာခိုသူပုန္ေတြက အစိုးရသတင္းေပးအျဖစ္ စြပ္စြဲတဲ့အတြက္၊ ႐ြာကေန ေပ်ာက္ကြယ္သြားခဲ့တယ္။ မင္းၾကည္ဟာ ဘုန္းႀကီးေက်ာင္းမွာပဲ ေက်ာင္းစေနခဲ့ရပါတယ္။ သူ႔အႏုပညာဗီဇကေတာ့ ငယ္ငယ္ကတည္းက ျပခဲ့တယ္။ ဒီလိုနဲ႔ သူ အလယ္တန္းတက္ ခ်ိန္ ၁၉၅၅ ခုႏွစ္မွာ နာမည္ေက်ာ္ပန္းခ်ီဆရာႀကီးႏွစ္ေယာက္နဲ႔ဆံုမိၿပီး၊ ပန္းခ်ီအေျခခံသေဘာေတြကို ၁၉၅၈ ခုအထိ သင္ယူတယ္။ သူဟာ ဥေရာပက အထင္ကရပန္းခ်ီဆရာႀကီးေတြရဲ႕လက္ရာေတြကို ပံုတူလုိက္ဆြဲရင္း၊ ‘ အျမင္ေရးဆြဲနည္း’ ၊ ‘ ေအာက္ဒိုးေရးနည္း’ ေတြကိုလည္း ေလ့လာခဲ့တယ္။ သူ႔အေပၚ အဲဒီလိုလႊမ္းမိုးမႈေတြနဲ႔အတူ၊ ပန္းခ်ီအႏုပညာအေပၚ ျမတ္ႏုိးမႈေတြက သူ႔ဆီမွာ အျပည့္အ၀ အေကာင္အထည္ေပၚလာခဲ့တာပါပဲ။