Vietnam arts and culture
Opening: Mon 18 Jul, 6 pm Exhibition: 18 – 28 Jul 2011 Maison des Arts From Maison des Arts: You are invited to an exhibition lab of artist Nguyen Trac Cuong: 1 event, 10 days, 4 major areas: paintings, photos, installations, time for (re)creation: fadish flowers. The artist invites … [Read more...]
Opening: Thu 28 Jul, 6 pm Exhibition: 28 Jul – 08 Sept 2011 Sàn Art From Sàn Art: ”Shaping a line” is a group exhibition that seeks to elevate the skills of the draughtsman to a local audience that far too often relegates this skill as something for understudy, sketch or note-book taking … [Read more...]
Opening: Fri 05 Aug, 6 pm Exhibition: 05 – 20 Aug 2011 Art Talk Cafe 12 Quan Su, Hanoi From Mai Gallery: You are invited to the exhibition “Symphony of Colours” of artists Nguyen Bao Ha and Vu Minh … [Read more...]
By Luong Xuan Doan 'Party Admission in the Dien Bien Phu Trench,' lacquer painting by Nguyen Sang. The first beautiful pages of Vietnam’s modern fine arts were first written by artists To Ngoc Van, Tran Van Can, Nguyen Phan Chanh and Nguyen Do Cung and later by … [Read more...]
HO CHI MINH CITY—“Sàn” means “platform” in Vietnamese, and in an art scene once largely defined by fragmented communities, a conservative government, and isolation from international debates and practices, Sàn Art — one of Vietnam’s first nonprofit, independently run art spaces, … [Read more...]
By Quang Phong, Quang Viet and H.C. Vietnamis moving forward. The Vietnamese are not only looking ahead to their future, however, but also making an effort to sort out their past. Recently they have come to terms with the origin of their modern art. For many years, this has been a sensitive topic … [Read more...]
By Huu Ngoc Until the middle of the 20th century, Vietnamese rarely left their home village for another place. An analogy was drawn with the pagoda bell which was rarely taken out of the village: when someone left the village to try out his talent in another land, the person was then considered … [Read more...]
By C. David Thomas According to Vietnamese legend, in the second century BC a beautiful princess, named Hoang Phu Thieu Hoa, discovered small caterpillars (later known as silkworms) spinning cocoons of fine thread. She took this knowledge to the nearby villages of Co … [Read more...]
From "Young Artist of Vietnam", 1996 By The Hanoi Fine Arts Publishing House Over a period of 30 years of peace from 1954 until 1984 - painting was a luxury. The concept, artists, was difficult to reconcile within the working-class professions. Still, graduates from Fine Art schools could … [Read more...]
(April 30, 2005) Many Vietnamese artists created immortal literary and music works during the national resistance wars. This resulted from their great passion for art they have and also their responsibilities to the fate of the country. Many writers went to the battlefields for … [Read more...]