A painting by Tran Thuy Linh, one of the four Vietnamese artists. (Source: thanhnien.vn)HCM City (VNA) - Four Vietnamese women artists areshowcasing their paintings at the Spring Song Art Exhibition in Nanjing,capital of China’s Jiangsu province.
The March 8-16 exhibition is organised by the city’s CultureBureau and Foreign Affairs Office to mark International Women’s Day (March 8).
The event will feature nearly 50 paintings on various mediumsand in many styles by 22 women artists from Myanmar, Malaysia, Thailand, andVietnam.
The Vietnamese artists -- Nguyen Thi Tam, Tran Thuy Linh, VietThi Kim Quyen, and Huynh Phuong Thi Dai Trang - who are members of the HCM Cityand Vietnam Fine Arts Associations, will exhibit two paintings each.
Tam, 82, best known for her paintings of lotuses, will showoff two works in mixed media titled Reflection and Spreading.
She paints pink and white lotuses to symbolise purity. Toher, the lotus embodies two things: uprightness and cause and effect.
Tam, a native of the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang, graduatedin oil painting from the Gia Dinh Fine Arts College in 1958. She has taken partin 20 solo and group exhibitions in Vietnam and countries like France, the USand Germany.
Linh, who does semi-abstract and abstract paintings, willexhibit two works, Way to the Universe No 1 and Way to theUniverse No 2.
She uses various mediums like oil, acrylic and canvas andbright colours like yellow, blue, and green.
Linh began to learn painting when she was eight fromwell-known artists at the Art Academy of Indochina in Hanoi and her mother, aprofessional artist.
She graduated from Leipzig University in Germany in 1988 andcontinued to learn painting in Vietnam after her return.
She has held several solo and group exhibitions in Vietnam,the US, the Republic of Korea, Mongolia, and Taiwan. Her paintings are owned byprivate collectors in Vietnam, Germany, the US, Thailand, Malaysia, andSingapore.
Quyen showcases Vietnamese landscapes in her Backdayfrom Da Lat city and Violet Summer, while Trang has two semi-abstractworks, Dream of Trees and The Flower of Love.
After participating in the exhibition opening ceremony, thevisiting artists will have an exchange with their Chinese counterparts.-VNA
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