Nguyen Phan Chanh Founder of Modern Style of Silk Painting
Name
Nguyen Phan Chanh
Media
Painting
Region
Vietnam
Year of Birth
1892
Place of Birth
ハティン県ティエパット村（ベトナム）
Year of Death
1984
Place of Death
ハノイ（ベトナム）
Nguyen Phan Chanh, pseudonym Hong Nam, is the pioneer of Vietnamese silk painting. He is one of the first painters whose name is worthily mentioned in the history of Vietnamese modern art.
Nguyen was born into a humble Confucian scholar’s family. As an adolescent, he sold self-drawn pictures and got paid for writing Chinese characters to subsidize his family. In 1925, he entered the first class of the École des Beaux-Arts de l’Indochine. On the advice of Victor Tardieu, the school director, he began learning Chinese traditional paintings, and later established Vietnamese silk paintings’ technique that is distinct from Chinese paintings. In 1939, he returned to his home village and worked there until 1955 before he went back to Hanoi to teach painting at Hanoi College of Fine Arts.
Nguyen Phan Chanh, pseudonym Hong Nam, is the pioneer of Vietnamese silk painting. He is one of the first painters whose name is worthily mentioned in the history of Vietnamese modern art.
Nguyen was born into a humble Confucian scholar’s family. As an adolescent, he sold self-drawn pictures and got paid for writing Chinese characters to subsidize his family. In 1925, he entered the first class of the École des Beaux-Arts de l’Indochine. On the advice of Victor Tardieu, the school director, he began learning Chinese traditional paintings, and later established Vietnamese silk paintings’ technique that is distinct from Chinese paintings. In 1939, he returned to his home village and worked there until 1955 before he went back to Hanoi to teach painting at Hanoi College of Fine Arts.
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