Ba Thet

Born - 1903 ~ 1972

Ba Thet (1903-72), major painter of early Mandalay School. Studied by “seeing and doing” from Mg Mg Gyi, Ba Zaw, Saung. Painted in watercolor and oil, often in an eccentric, prankish style. Notorious as a nonconformist and broke from the Mandalay plein air watercolor style whose roots were in British painting. One of the initiators of Mandalay Modernism in the 1960s.