Painting in the Footsteps of Monks
By Ooi Kok Chuen
March 2018 PENANG PALETTE
Painting monks from behind, and washes of water and fishermen, Min Wae Aung continues a tight routine, experimenting with his art.Flip-flap, flip-flap! You can almost hear the syncopated footfalls as saffron-clad monks, suffused in monochromes, saunter away from view in Min Wae Aung's mesmeric Monk Pop canvases.Min Wae Aung funnels his eye on the lower body region, the lifting and lowering of the feet barefoot or clad in slippers, harnessing the anatomy strictures of his main mentor Thu Kha (1918-2007).The...
Ooi Kok Chuen
is an art-writer and journalist, and the author of MAHSURI: A Legend Reborn (Ooi Peeps Publishing), an adult contemporary fantasy “movel” (a novel conceived as a mock movie) spun from a local legend.
