The Saigon Times Daily Lasting until February 22, the event is being organized by the Vietnam fine art and painting club under the Labor Culture Palace to feature around 55 paintings in varied materials from oil on canvas to lacquer, pastel and mixed media. The exhibits reflect the vibrant spring atmosphere and traditional customs during Tet throughout Vietnam. In particular, there are nine paintings that won awards at "Canh co mua xuan" (spring brush) painting competition held at the cultural palace during this year’s Tet for children and teenagers. The palace is located at 55B Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Street in District 1. … [Read more...] about Tet-theme painting exhibition opened in town
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Prosperity paintings
For hundreds of years, Vietnamese have bought special Tet paintings during the Lunar New Year season. … [Read more...] about Prosperity paintings
Painting classes an outlet for creativity in Ho Chi Minh City
An increasing number of people in Ho Chi Minh City are opening wallets for painting classes where adults can get lost in their childhood world, and children can be themselves. The painting classes, which typically comprise only one session lasting a few hours, provide learners with relaxation and serve as outlets for their inventiveness and artistic passion. Recently making their debut in the metropolis, the classes have appealed greatly to people of different age brackets, particularly youths. On a weekend morning, a group of youths joined a class organized by Tipsy Art at a lavishly decorated café in the downtown area. Phi Hung, 28, who works at an advertising company, and his friends showed their thrill learning they would work on a landscape painting similar to that hung on the wall. “It’s my first time in such a class. I’m surprised at the striking décor and thorough preparation. We felt like we were professional artists,” he said. The … [Read more...] about Painting classes an outlet for creativity in Ho Chi Minh City
Award-winning artists exhibit oil paintings
Award-winning artists exhibit oil paintings (12-03-2009) by Vo Le Hong HCM CITY — An exhibition of 27 oil paintings by a group of five veteran painters is on display at the Phuong Mai Art Gallery in HCM City. The painters, who have had numerous domestic and overseas exhibitions, range in age from 55 to 67. The work of one of the painters, La Hon, who has received both national and international awards, is both simple and abstract. "I was at first influenced by Modigliani because I really liked the deep eyes which he painted," he said. "Step by step, I found my own style to express my feelings." Le Thanh, who is also exhibiting his work, won a scholarship to France and in 1962 showed his work Bidding Farewell in the first International Fine Arts Exhibition in Viet Nam. Another artist in the show, Ho Huu Thu, won a silver medal in an international competition in 1960 and a second prize in the National Fine Arts competition. Thu, who is deeply immersed in the Buddhist tradition, … [Read more...] about Award-winning artists exhibit oil paintings
Seeking a brand for Vietnamese paintings
While artworks by painters in some Southeast Asian countries are priced at hundreds of thousands or several millions of USD, Vietnamese paintings sell for considerably less. Famous painter and critic Phan Cam Thuong said Vietnamese paintings hadn’t joined the world art market yet. They are still seen as fine-art handicraft, tourism, copied and tax-dodging paintings. “We don’t have a market for painting and our painters are unprofessional. Professionalism is partly shown through artists’ ability to live by their brushes and register their job as painters for tax purposes,” Phan Cam Thuong observed. In the world, painters who don’t perform tax duties are not seen as professional painters. Vietnam doesn’t have a market for paintings because it doesn’t have a procedure for managing, preserving, assessing and trading paintings up to international standard, he said. “It is a fact that we can’t integrate into the world market … [Read more...] about Seeking a brand for Vietnamese paintings