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Traditional Lacquer Paintings of Vietnam
Critic Nguyen Quan
Specially designed for lacquer painting, this exhibition offered a panoramic view of the present state of lacquer artworks in Vietnam today. This genre of painting is a new one developed in the 1920s - 1930s by the teachers at the French Indochinese "Ðcole des Beause - Arts de L'Indochine" on the basis of ancient Vietnamese lacquer work. Pummicing now is done many times and the European rules of drawing, composition and perspective are suitably applied. After a period of stagnation due to the monotony of styles and lack of artistic media such as gold, silver, lacquer now lacquer painting has regained its high prestige thanks to some renovation in terms of new techniques and styles of expression. The Exhibition also included works from distant provinces namely Hue, Haiphong, etc
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On the occasion of the Hue Cultural Week in Hanoi (23/4 ¸ 31/5/1999), a collection of paintings by artists from the province of Thua Thien Hue has for the first time been assembled in this Exhibition at Co Do as an aesthetic gift to the people of Hanoi.
This Exhibition gathers 50 works by 8 Hue artists. Using such materials as oil colour, lacquer, silk, the landscape and the men and women of Hue in Vietnam's new time and space.
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Horse is supple, strong and graceful. Horse is of heroic style of King Nguyen Hue when he entered into Thang Long on the 5th of the Lunar New year. It is of male valiant style of a fighter or hero Tu Hai. Horse is also a Romaic dream traveling in "half sober half drunk" state of a person in love.
Horse is a thoughtful time - as stone horse in a majestic place, is the time passing quickly through our life. Horse is placed in the altar together with gods and goddesses to protect mountain and forests, land fields, rivers and oceans |
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: "Inspiration of the Year 2000" (due to open from 19/12/1999 to February 2000). As an annual tradition, Cè §« Gallery organizes an art exhbition each year on the occasion of the Lunar New Year to display pictures of the symbolic animal of the Lunar Year. The above mentioned exhibition which marks the end of 1999 and also the close of the 2nd millennium will present 15 authors of 3 generations who are already celebrated both at home and abroad. Each author will exhibit one picture of the dragon as well as his selected works that are rich in styles, genres, topic and artisitc media. The pointers all live and work in Hanoi. This exhibition is held to greet the New Year and will last until Tet i.e. the Lunar New Year, the year of the Dragon 2000.
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