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Aung Aung Taik (artist)
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Born in Rangoon, Burma in 1948, the Burmese artist Aung
Aung Taik, received the traditional boarding school
education of his class, after which he decided not to
follow his father’s footsteps to enter medical school,
but to study painting. He attended the State Academy of
Art in Rangoon and took private lessons from two of
Burma’s leading artists, U Ba Kyi and U Ngwe Gaing.
Afterwards, he accompanied his mentors, the writers Ludu
U Hla and Daw Ahmar on a number of anthropological
expeditions into the remote regions of Burma. Aung Aung
Taik illustrated a series of books published by Ludu U
Hla. Mostly, he made successful exhibitions of his work
in Burma, Japan and USA. Dissatisfied with stagnation in
the fine arts and seeking greater artistic autonomy,
Aung Aung Taik left Burma and come to the United States
in 1972 and continued his studies at the San Francisco
Art Institute.
E-mail : aungaung@earthlink.net
Address :
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1737, Jackson St, #205, San Francisco, California,
USA.
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