Shwe Oung Thame (born Aung Thein; 1932–1994) was a Burmese painter with a high reputation among modernists in Burma.
[3] Shwe Oung Thame was an important artist in the middle period in the development of modernist art in Burma.
Later he would be considered a master in his own right with students who are leading modernists in Burma today, including Win Pe Myint, Tin Maung Oo and Bogie.
"These are rapidly produced paintings in which he seems to mix some of the lightning techniques of Chinese ink and watercolor method with oil painting… it might be called "action impressionism".
[7] Shwe Oung Thame also wrote two books on his life and aesthetics, The Fool and Going Out of the Golden Cave.