Southeast Asian Painting and the Festival It Depicts

Southeast Asian painting and the festival it depicts

Nadia Wandaputri (11 Anthony)

Description Title : “Thingyan”Country of origin : MyanmarArtist : U Ba KyiYear of creation : approximately 1960Media used : oil painting on canvas board

Painting and it’s Festival • Thingyan is a water festival • Celebrated by people in myanmar• To welcome new year • Celebrated anually during the second

week of April.

THE FESTIVAL people pour or throw water on one another (ritual of sprinkling) participate in a variety of religious rituals and performing arts activities.

Time for people to purify themselves and to look forward to a better life.

People fast, give alms and do good deeds.

Those who cannot afford to buy gifts perform personal services for the elderly.

Togetherness, Family, Friendship, and Religion

Instead of music played on traditional instruments like drums, cymbals, oboes and flutes, as was done in the past, today, loud-speakers blare modern pop songs and rhyming chants.