20 January 2024
An artist has described concern over the decreasing number of masterful people in the creation of traditional painting styles, highlighting the threat of the near-extinction of crafts. Because of fewer artists practise traditional sketching techniques.
Therefore, among 14 traditional painting styles in Myanmar, Nipat Painting (painting Buddhist chronicles), Combined Painting (crafting figures using paints and materials), and Shwezawah Yoon (painting figures on a lacquerware surface using gold foils) are on the edge of extinction.
