December 31, 2011
Artist Karishma Kannan poses next to a work in progress at her residence on November 23, 2011 It has been said that a picture is a poem without words. It has also been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Karishma Kannan’s pictures live up to both these definitions, telling a poetic [...]
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October 9, 2011
Artist says she was destined to depict the story of Kieu The silk paintings by Ngoc Mai have Kieu wearing Vietnamese traditional dresses like ao dai and ao tu than. Each painting took Mai several months to complete. Vietnam’s most famous literary work of all time, “The Tale of Kieu,” has been rewritten in [...]
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August 15, 2011
A set of wall paintings by young graffiti artists has inspired a conversation about art, culture and the changing times in a HCMC neighborhood. One of the half-length portrait murals portraying a member of the Click9 project The area around this old Pho Shop will never be the same. Pho Dau, one of Ho [...]
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July 7, 2011
Vietnamese Pop icon Dam Vinh Hung (L) presents his painting called "Throne and Ephemera," which donates US$50,000 to the charity fund of actress Ngo Thanh Van (in red) The "Scar of Life’"s first charity benefit concert took in nearly US$100,000 in donations on June 29. Â All proceeds from the concert will be used to [...]
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June 1, 2011
Painting Bit mat bat de (Blind man’s buff) by Nguyen Phan Nguyet Minh, a fourth-grader from Hanoi was awarded special prize3 In a sunlit garden of flower and fruit-laden trees, children play a game of blind man’s buff, or should we call it blind women’s buff? For nine-year-old Nguyen Phan Nguyet Minh, a fourth-grader from [...]
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May 7, 2011
A 3D painting along Hoa Lo Street in Hanoi Modern 3D and contemporary paintings along Hoa Lo Street have made pedestrians stop in their tracks to appreciate the works of eight local and foreign artists. Prefab 77, a Newcastle-based artists collective, had made a big impression on the UK street art scene. They brought the [...]
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November 30, 2010
Chieu ta (Sunset), an oil painting by King Ham Nghi (1871-1943) A painting by King Ham Nghi (1871-1943) has been sold for 8,800 euros (US$11,729) at an auction in Paris on Wednesday, an official has said.  The auction was held by SVV Million & Associé and around 80 people attended, according to Nguyen Van [...]
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November 23, 2010
Déclin du jour (Sunset), a painting by Vietnam’s Emperor Ham Nghi (1872-1943), will go on auction in Paris on Nov. 24, 2010. According to BBC News, before going on auction at the starting price of US$1,600, the oil painting will be exhibited at No 5 Avenue d’Eylau in Paris and at the Drouot Hotel. [...]
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November 8, 2010
Long me (Motherâs heart), a silk painting by Le Pho. Low market demand and high technical requirements are discouraging Vietnamese artists from taking up silk painting. At a time when many arts are enjoying a resurgence based on increasing prosperity and greater market demand, it was a very drastic and shocking thing to say. Famous [...]
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January 25, 2010
LookAtVietnam – The book entitled Nude Paintings and Statues introduces 156 artworks by 52 artists and this is one of the first books about nude arts published in Vietnam. A nude painting by Pham Ngoc Thanh. The first nude painting book, Xuan Thi or Spring Time, by photographer Thai Phien, was released back in December 2007. [...]
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