Vietnamese paintings

The photos in this blog were taken in Hanoi and at the Bát Tràng ceramic market (13km away from Hanoi). These paintings are some pictures of Hanoi and northern Vietnam, for example, Hàng Đào street in 1926 with the rail line and tram-car, tube houses in Hanoi's Old Quarter, cyclos, lotus flowers, countryside landscape, Vietnamese girls wearing traditional dresses, Hoàn Kiếm lake in Hanoi's center, markets at some northern villages and ethnic minority women etc.

Some portrait paintings are drawn by black pencils, which we call "Vẽ truyền thần", while other paintings are made of stone, natural leaves or hand embroidery. These paintings are on sale, for display at a handicraft exhibition or decoration at the hotels. Sometimes I present a small painting to my foreign friends. In many cases, I choose a wooden painting of Vietnamese girls wearing our traditional dresses and conical hats. I think it's one of the typical pictures of Vietnam.

In Hanoi, there are many galleries along Hàng Gai, Hàng Trống and Tràng Tiền streets, where you can buy great paintings. Certainly, they are more expensive, as the shops are located at the touristy area and the shop rental at those areas is very expensive. In addition, they are the paintings of better quality.

More paintings can be seen at the Museum of Fine Arts (Viện Bảo tàng Mỹ thuật) on Nguyễn Thái Học street in Hanoi. I've seen on TV some foreigners attending a course at Hanoi University of Fine Arts (Trường Đại học Mỹ thuật Hà Nội) on Yết Kiêu street, where they learn how to make special paintings of the Vietnamese arts like lacquer painting (tranh sơn mài), oil painting (tranh sơn dầu) etc.

Please also view my other blogs about the woodblock and ceramic tile paintings in northern Vietnam:

Đông Hồ woodblock paintings

Tranh gốm (ceramic tile paintings)

---

---