Win Pe Myint is a noted Burmese painter. Two of his teachers were Paw Oo Thet

Paw Oo Thet

Paw Oo Thet was a Burmese painter, prominent in the Mandalay art scene who became one of the initiators of a modernistic art movement in Burma in the early 1960s.-Early Training:...

 and Thein Han (painter)

Thein Han (painter)

Thein Han was a major Yangon painter of the post-World War II era who produced a number of memorable works and who had an abiding influence on the evolution of the more conservative painting styles in Burma in the decades that followed...

. He should not be confused with the earlier Burmese painter Win Pe of Mandalay, born in in 1936, who was a contemporary of Paw Oo Thet

Paw Oo Thet

Paw Oo Thet was a Burmese painter, prominent in the Mandalay art scene who became one of the initiators of a modernistic art movement in Burma in the early 1960s.-Early Training:...

, and one of the early founders of modernist painting in Burma.
Win Pe Myint is particularly well-known for his excellent still life works, although in recent years he has been painting landscapes and portraits. In February 2005 he opened his new studio in Hlaingthaya Township

Hlaingthaya Township

Hlaingthaya Township is located in the western part of Yangon, Myanmar. The township comprises 20 wards and nine village tracts, and shares borders with Htantabin Township in the north and west, Insein Township, Mayangon Township and Hlaing Township in the east across the Yangon River, and Twante...

, designed by architect Aung Soe Myint. The studio features over a hundred of his paintings.

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