Tạ Tỵ (24 September 1922 – 24 August 2004) was a Vietnamese painter and poet. After the Vietnam War ended in 1975, he was sent to a reeducation camp until 1981. Afterwards he and his wife left Vietnam as

boat people Vietnamese boat people () were refugees who fled Vietnam by boat and ship following the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. This migration and humanitarian crisis was at its highest in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but continued well into the earl ...

via Malaysia and resettled in California in 1983. He returned to Vietnam shortly before his death in 2004. His paintings were originally influenced by

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turning to abstract art around 1961.

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Vietnamese male poets 1922 births 2004 deaths 20th-century Vietnamese painters 20th-century Vietnamese poets Writers from Hanoi Artists from Hanoi 20th-century Vietnamese male writers {{Vietnam-writer-stub