Vietnam arts and culture
Vietnamese lacquer art works date back to more than two thousand years. Lacquered items found in ancient tombs in Vietnam, date as far back as the third and fourth centuries B.C. The first instances of lacquer work in Vietnam were found in household items and wares such as the links in the planks of … [Read more...]
Lacquer paintings are ancient paintings that regained their popularity in the world art scene for the last decade. Vietnam and Burma are two main producers of this distinctive art. The two countries were just recently opened up to tourism and started exhibiting their highly skilled … [Read more...]
Tue 10 Jan 2012, 2.30 – 4.30 pm New Space Arts Foundation, Hue From New Space Arts Foundation: You are invited to the discussion on contemporary arts of the 2 artists: Laura Cooper and Connelly LaMar. The discussion includes 2 parts: presentation and Q&A and exercises for students. Part … [Read more...]
By John Stevenson Published on 3/1/98 Things Asian The evolution of Vietnamese ceramics parallels the course of Vietnamese history, reflecting how people lived and how they related to neighboring cultures. The vocabulary of ceramic shapes, glazes, and decorative motifs allows us to read the … [Read more...]
Author: Natalia KRAEVSKAIA Contemporary art in Vietnam, beginning from the early 90's, experienced a tremendous transformation. The opening of a political space stimulated the emergence of new art forms, stylistic diversity, and a general activation of the art scene. This book offers the … [Read more...]
From "Vietnam Contemporary Art", 1996 By The Hanoi Fine Arts Publisher Among the Vietnamese plastic arts, wood engraving is a long standing traditional one. We have inherited from our ancients from Dong Ho village a valuable tradition of wood engraving in colour. These engravings are … [Read more...]
By artist Nguyen Thanh Binh, 2000 Since 1975, there has been mainly two dominating creative trends of Art in Ho Chi Minh City: 1-The trend created by artists from the North including artists who are originally Southerners but regrouped in the North in 1954 according to the Geneva … [Read more...]
Việt Lê (author photo courtesy of Nguyễn Quốc Thành) Việt Lê is an artist, creative writer, and independent curator. He received his MFA at the University of California, Irvine, where he has also taught studio art and visual culture courses, and is currently a doctoral candidate … [Read more...]
By Nguyen Quan - Hochiminh City, 06/ 1998 This question is often raised: Where is Vietnamese contemporary sculpture? Does it actually exit? Truly, with 200 painting exhibitions annually held at home and tens of arts display abroad, hundreds of galleries of all kinds mushrooming in towns and … [Read more...]
By Phan Cam Thuong The creative beginning Ceramic making first appeared in Viet Nam during the country’s primitive stages of development when people gave up their wild existence to live in settled communities, and began inventing new tools and household goods. Artifacts found in … [Read more...]