For all his devotion to traditional classical music, however, he was attracted to Western music, especially jazz and blues, from the age of around 10 years old in the years immediately after World War II. He was mesmerized by the music of Louis Armstrong, Harry James, Ella Fitzgerald and others to whom he was exposed through American musical films. At home, he secretly tuned to Radio Ceylon from Sri Lanka for European classical music, lest his anti-colonial nationalist father should become aware of his new passion. Apart from playing traditional xylophone at home, he learned to play trumpet and saxophone without his father’s knowledge.
Elephant Dance & Blue River by Win Pe
Additional Artworks
From Atomic Art Space
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Aung Thin Oo
Shwedagon, 2023
Watercolor on Paper
22 x 30 in (55.88 x 76.2 cm)
MMK 1,500,000
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Win Tint
Shwe Dagon View from Artist's Home, 2022
Acrylic On Canvas
30 x 36 x 1 in (76.2 x 91.44 x 2.54 cm)
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Moe Nyo (b. 1976)
Poetic Poem, 2022
Watercolor on Paper
21 x 30 in (53.34 x 76.2 cm)
MMK 6,000,000
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Aung Htet Lwin
Koi (2022), 2022
Watercolor on Paper
21 x 30 in (53.34 x 76.2 cm)
MMK 1,000,000
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Aung Htet Lwin
Zay Cho, Mandalay (2022), 2022
Watercolor on Paper
21 x 30 in (53.34 x 76.2 cm)
MMK 1,000,000
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Arkar Myo
Min Nan Thu, Bagan (2022), 2022
Watercolor on Paper
12 x 16 in (30.48 x 40.64 cm)
MMK 800,000
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Moe Nyo (b. 1976)
Poetic Poem (2022), 2022
Watercolor on Paper
11 x 15 in (27.94 x 38.1 cm)
MMK 2,500,000
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Ngwe Phyo
Bagan (2021), 2021
Watercolor on Paper
15 x 20 in (38.1 x 50.8 cm)
MMK 500,000
About the artist
Win Pe
Myanmar
b. 1936
