13-year-old impressionist emerges with works created on pandemic days

STORY: 13-year-old impressionist emerges with works created during pandemic days DATELINE: Aug. 28, 2022 LENGTH: 00:04:35 LOCATION: YANGON, Myanmar CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of Bhone Myat San studying arts on YouTube 2. various of Bhone Myat San painting the Tharbar Gate 3. various of Bhone Myat San's paintings at his living room STORYLINE: With 48 impressionism works exhibited in his solo show in Yangon recently, Bhone Myat San, a 13-year-old boy, has stepped into a professional career in Myanmar. More than 30 paintings or about 70 percent of the paintings from the event were collected from a show on July 9 to 11 at the Artist Gallery Cafe in Yangon on the occasion of his 13th birthday, according to the gallery owner. "Staying at home during the pandemic, I have studied (through) painting lessons from YouTube and also joined a five-month online class about oil painting conducted by a Myanmar oil painter in 2021," said the young artist. "When my mom was transferred to Dawei in 2020 with dut

MYANMAR-YANGON-YOUNG ARTIST

MYANMAR-YANGON-YOUNG ARTIST

(220828) -- YANGON, Aug. 28, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Bhone Myat San poses for photos in his home in Yangon, Myanmar, on Aug. 24, 2022. TO GO WITH "Feature: 13-year-old impressionist emerges with works created during pandemic days" (Photo by Myo Kyaw Soe/Xinhua)

MYANMAR-YANGON-YOUNG ARTIST

MYANMAR-YANGON-YOUNG ARTIST

(220828) -- YANGON, Aug. 28, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Bhone Myat San works on a painting in his home in Yangon, Myanmar, on Aug. 24, 2022. TO GO WITH "Feature: 13-year-old impressionist emerges with works created during pandemic days" (Photo by Myo Kyaw Soe/Xinhua)