tailieunhanh - Arts Trends In Viet Nam

It should be first pointed out that French artists who taught "L'Ecole Superieux des Beaux Arts de L'Indochine" (The College of Fine Arts of Indochina) opened in Hanoi in 1925 were blazetrailers of contemporary arts of Vietnam. European arts have had much imprint on Vietnam's. Whatever "ism" have existed in Europe whether Classical Naturalism, Medieval Religionism, Post Impressionism, Cubism, Expressionism, Surrealism, Abstractionism. and even present-day Installation and Land Art., all turn up in Vietnam. It does not mean, however, that Vietnamese arts is a simplified copy of European arts since artists of any time while choosing new school for expressing. | Arts Trends In Viet Nam Nguyen Hung It should be first pointed out that French artists who taught L Ecole Superieux des Beaux Arts de L Indochine The College of Fine Arts of Indochina opened in Hanoi in 1925 were blazetrailers of contemporary arts of Vietnam. European arts have had much imprint on Vietnam s. Whatever ism have existed in Europe whether Classical Naturalism Medieval Religionism Post Impressionism Cubism Expressionism Surrealism Abstractionism. and even present-day Installation and Land Art. all turn up in Vietnam. It does not mean however that Vietnamese arts is a simplified copy of European arts since artists of any time while choosing new school for expressing select just what is most pregnant to their perception. First generation of contemporary artists like To Ngoc Van Tran Van Can Nguyen Gia Tri Nguyen Phan Chanh Nguyen Do Cung. made a hard break with the weight of classical European arts to seek for their own inspiration-generating sources . Their search commenced with images and then with materials techniques. Soon they reached uniform thinking in arts creation . exonerative expression of their feelings and aesthetic viewpoints. Present- day people when watching paintings of these elders have to concede that they only learned European graphic techniques and materials. Freely and naturally did they make use of the physic space oil material at the same time they acad-emised folk materials like lacquer silk carvings. Spiritually they retained Vietnamese nature to the full by non- rationalization and unaffected characterization of feelings on surrounding entities -landscapes objects and beings. and of folk metaphysical concept imbued with Buddhism Taoism Confucianism. Generally speaking L Indochine era artists fully conceived that foreign arts schools only meant when the best parts selected thoroughly uniform in the course of thinking which has its own settings and ways of reception. Not any significant change took place during the first period