Nghiem Xuan
Quang paintings.
Lotus from Tay
Ho.
Hanoi's
suburbannbsp; area No.4.
An old street in
Hanoi.
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His whole life attached to the present-day Hanoi Capital and the
old capital of Thang Long of millennial culture has formed a breeding
ground and source of inspiration for painter Nghiem Xuan Quang to produce
works of art that are deeply imbued with immense love and emotional ties
for Hanoi. The painter has nurtured a keen love for Hanoi. This profound
love is now expressed in abundance in each of his paintings, with its
beauty of yesterday and today and its daily changes for the better.
In his lucid style for the plastic
art, the images are precise, emotive and attractive to the viewers. The
subject-matter of the works are found to be diverse, with some tint of
nostalgia, depicting the life of Hanoi people with distinct cultural
identity: delicacy, poignancy, and gracefulness with a hidden elegance...
From
inspiration for creation to artistic conviction, Nghiem Xuan Quang has
taken full advantage of the quintessence of the art of traditional
engravings with typical description: carving on engraved lacquer, against
engraving on such other materials as wood, plaster ...to bring into full
play the lines of details, typical of his personal art and style, i.e.
simple in contents, intelligible in form, rich in both traditional and
modern qualities. Hanoi in the paintings by Nghiem Xuan Quang is quite
capable of holding "dialogue" with the art-lovers.
On the
occasion of the 50th anniversary of Hanoi's liberation (October 10, 1954 -
October 10, 2004), Vietnam Pictorial has the honour to present the readers
with a few typical paintings by painter Nghiem Xuan
Quang.nbsp;
By painter Trinh Sinh
Nha
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Hanoi in spring -nbsp;Past and
Present. |