More than 130 artworks from six established artists are being displayed at HCMC Fine Arts Museum until Monday, featuring a feast of colors on daily life in the exhibition The Color of the South.
The artists are Duong Sen, Le Xuan Chieu, Luong Khanh Toan and Nguyen Dang Khoat who are all aged between 57 and 64, were born in northern Vietnam and later moved to the southern hub and Ho Minh Quan (1961), from Hue City and Nguyen Dam Thuy (1967), the youngest and only woman in the group, from the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre.
Thuy brings 23 large oil paintings reflecting peaceful countryside sceneries in bright color tones and portraits of womanhood to the show, while Sen is a master of lacquer and has 33 works featuring the beauty of the sea or the rustic life in the Mekong Delta.
If Toan uses lacquers to depict landscapes, Khoat uses bright colors and the advantage of oil to tell his childhood memories in northern Vietnam.
Chieu’s 29 works straddle several genres such as multi-media, lacquer, silk, wood carving and pastels and features people living in the northern mountains. Quan seems close to life in the central highlands with ladies in tea or coffee plantations.
Source: VietnamNet Bridge
