'Blooming Seeds' preserves the beauty that is gradually fading away

'Gouache Paintings' is an exhibition displaying gouache paintings, a medium that played a fundamental role in modern Vietnamese art, especially during the teaching period of the Indochina College of Fine Arts (1925–1945).

The gouache works in this exhibition are mostly from artists born in the 1930s and 1940s such as Bui Ngoc Tu, Truong Dinh Hao, Tran Nguyen Dan... - a generation in which images of a Vietnam on the threshold of urbanization such as traditional festivals, thatched roofs or folk games... were probably not unfamiliar in their eyes.

Art collector Xuan Phuong introduces one of the paintings by artist Truong Dinh Hao displayed at the exhibition "Grains blooming in the flower field"

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With its quick-drying properties, gouache can both meet the requirements of demonstration in teaching environments and is suitable for sketching - allowing artists to capture fleeting rhythms of everyday life, in a timely, intimate way with an intuitive brushwork without the need for elaborate preparation. In addition to the advantages of low cost, easy preservation, and suitability to hot and humid climates, this material quickly became popular among artists at that time.

The exhibition takes place on the ground floor of the Hotel des Arts Saigon.

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This is an activity to celebrate MGallery's Heritage Day, a global initiative inspired by European Heritage Day which takes place every September.

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Fascinated by gouache paintings at the exhibition

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On a raw paper background mixed with colored powder, those slices are recorded flexibly and expressively, as if to retain things that are gradually disappearing in the constant flow of replacement.

The exhibition "Blooming Seeds" welcomes visitors (free of charge) from 9am to 6pm every day until September 10 at the Café des Beaux-Arts space, ground floor of the Hôtel des Arts Saigon (76-78 Nguyen Thi Minh Khai, Xuan Hoa ward, Ho Chi Minh City).

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/hat-no-dong-hoa-luu-giu-nhung-ve-dep-dang-dan-troi-khuat-185250906153639357.htm