Nguyễn Văn Duyến, art name Tú Duyên (20 December 1915, in

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– May 3, 2012) was a Vietnamese

painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

. Nguyễn Văn Duyến was born in the pottery village of Bát Tràng near

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. He first was a private student of

Nam Sơn Nguyễn Nam Sơn, real name Nguyễn Vạn Thọ (1890–1973) was a Vietnamese painter who taught at the École des Beaux-Arts de l’Indochine The Vietnam University of Fine Arts (formerly ''Hanoi College of Fine Arts'') is an art school in H ...

, then a student at the

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from 1935-1942. Duyên moved to

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in 1942, making silk and paper

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folk prints from finger-painted woodblocks. His work is considered as having given new dimensions to traditional ''thủ ấn họa'' hand stamp paintings. He submitted some of his prints to Saigon's newspapers and his illustrations began to feature in newspapers from the late 1940s. His paintings drew subjects from literary work such as ''

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'', the ''

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'' of the poet

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, and popular folklore. He had also drawn Vietnamese kings and other notable historical figures. The

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currently exhibits his work including nine paintings on canvas and 52 wood carving plaques

References

External links

Họa sĩ Tú Duyên qua đời - Painter Tú Duyên passes away (Vietnamese) Article and photo

Họa sĩ Tú Duyên - Trọn đời đam mê thủ ấn họa - Article with examples of Tú Duyên's ''thủ ấn họa'' style of painting
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