ASIAN ART NEWS, 1997 By Ian Howard While Vietnamese artists are becoming more active participants in the international art world, they have not rejected their own cultures. AsVietnamchanges rapidly, its best artists seek to confront change to create a vision that reflects … [Read more...]
Contemporary Vietnamese art during Doi Moi
July 13, 2011 By
(Nov 19, 2002) By Tran Thi Huynh Nga With the advent of Doi Moi (new change or renovation), Vietnamese fine art has been developing rapidly. After the end of the American War in 1975 until 1986 (when Doi Moi was implemented) the art community was stagnant partly … [Read more...]
Contemporary painters brighten arts history
July 13, 2011 By
(December 30, 2003) Painters in the early stage of the 1945 August revolution were regarded as the pathfinders for Vietnam’s modern art. Most of them were honored with the Ho Chi Minh Prize, the highest distinction for Vietnamese artists. Secretary General of the Vietnam … [Read more...]
Contemporary Artists – Efforts to Build and Affirm a Novel Spirit for the New Artistic Tradition
July 13, 2011 By
By Nguyen Xuan Tiep Dang Thi Khue Mankind and Bowls, Oil 83cm x 66.8cm Vietnamese plastic arts enjoy a time-honored tradition. Their most prominent achievements are the famous wooden statues and engravings in communal houses, pagodas, royal tombs, shrines and temples of … [Read more...]
Art Tradition Emerges from Colonial Past
July 12, 2011 By
The Hong Kong Standard, 1998 By Richard Frost The French did little for the Vietnamese people during their 56-year colonial rule, because they never felt there was any gain in the development or education of the country. The major effect of their rule was to harden Vietnamese resolve for … [Read more...]
A Narrative of Mirrors
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Asian Art News, 1999 By Ian Findlay In a rush to modernity, many contemporary Vietnamese artists have discarded their nation's past. Its legends, myths, cruelties, and inequities do not inspire them. But this is not so for Hanoi-born lacquer artists, Bui Huu Hung. His art digs deep into the … [Read more...]
A glimpse of contemporary Vietnamese Art
July 12, 2011 By
By art critic Duong Tuong, 2000 It is not very long since Vietnamese art in general and contemporary Vietnamese art in particular emerged from unrecognition - I'd rather say anonymity - to have its say on the world's art scene. For a long period, scholars and researchers in the West were prone to … [Read more...]
Hanoi’s contemporary artists to showcase palm-sized works
July 7, 2011 By
17 young contemporary artists in Hanoi will gather in Gia Lam District this week for an exhibition showcasing works that aren’t bigger than a palm. Truong Art, one of the artist to take part in the event Photo: SGTTHoused by OM Studio, one of the biggest exhibition venues for contemporary art … [Read more...]
A brief history of Art in Vietnam
July 2, 2011 By
Beautiful art had been produced in Vietnam for centuries. It was created in sculptures of many media, woodblocks, ceramics, lacquer works, embroidered art, silk paintings, ink on rice paper, etc. It was stamped, inside and out, on every pagoda, temple and palace from one end of the country to the … [Read more...]
80/90′s
July 2, 2011 By
Since the mid-1980's, with the new government policy of openness, Vietnamese art has moved into a new phase in which the artists are allowed to have more freedom of creation and exhibition . As resulted, artists from Viet Nam in recent years have become more exploratory and audacious in their work. … [Read more...]