Two Italian artists spent some time at the court of Mandalay, but it seems more probable that Western art made its first real impact on us by way of illustrations in British books and magazines, and perhaps also from the pictorial labels on imported goods. 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. Returning…… More »