Running through the end of February, the exhibition featuresa collection of 20 quartet prints of different topics, including The FourSeasons Quartet, The Goddess Quartet, The Eight Immortals Quartet, and Historicaland Illustrative Quartet.
These series provide vivid insights into the ancestors’ conceptionof time and daily life, said Nguyen Anh Minh, Director of the Vietnam NationalFine Art Museum.
Minh noted that four-scroll woodblock print, or quartetscroll, is a set of four printings that depicts a wide variety of topics suchas the four seasons of the year, the four stages of human life, the fourepisodes from works of literature and popular legends, or the four idealisedfemale figures.
Some series are even enhanced with beautiful Han or Nom calligraphy as a wish for wealth and peace, he said. Quartet scrolls have long been favoured todecorate houses or used as objects of spiritual veneration, depending on theirmotifs and subject matter./.