Tran Trung Tin painted in Hanoi during the 60s and 70s, conveying the experience of the Vietnamese and the essence of human emotion in his images. When he was 12, he joined the Resisitance against the French who were occupying Vietnam at the time, devoting his youth to freeing his country only to be disappointed by the repression and misery that followed. Living in Hanoi during the Vietnam War, forbidden to express himself in words, he turned to painting to communicate the contradictions of his time.
Author: Buchanan, Sherry
Call Number: RSEA 759.9597 BUC
ISBN: 0953783901
Imprint: London: Asia Ink, 2001
Subjects: Painting, Vietnamese Painting, Modern 20th century Vietnam, Vietnam In art
This book explores the work of self-taught artist Tran Trung Tin, whose paintings depict the “optimistic tragedy” of life in Vietnam from the 1930s to the 1980s.
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