It was only in the 1920’s that Western-style oil painting was enthusiastically taken up by our artists after two gifted young Burmese, U Ba Nyan and U Ba Zas, had been enabled to study in England.

Four Myanmar contemporary artists take the spotlight in the group exhibition Resilience In Shadows: Art Amidst Adversity, showing at A+ Works of Art gallery in Kuala Lumpur until Sept 7.