Vietnamese Silk Paintings

A cover from Vietnam 🇻🇳 with stamps showing the beautiful Vietnamese silk paintings ! 

Mr. Ho on business trip - Nguyen Thu (1930) 

visit the house - nguyen trong save (1934-1991)

Truong Son Fire Kitchen - Vu Christmas Huong (1930-2011)

hometown flower - le thi Kim Bach (1938)

Vietnamese Silk Paintings 

Date of issue : 01-04-2019

 Silk Painting is a unique type of painting, which is a unique type of Asian culture in general, Vietnamese culture in particular. 

It was born from the 30 s of the last century and is the pride of the Vietnamese Fine Arts with a lot of art stored in museums, private collection in the country and in international museums. 

After the August Revolution, the silk painting line has been developed by a generation of artist s' heritage and development - which is mainly focused on exploiting the subject of fighting life, labour of the people with many digging. , creative in the express way, palette and French pen.

Differently with other kinds of paintings, the silk canvas are usually not painted. The Vietnamese traditional silk painting style tends to use the silk canvas directly as the background of the painting. The colors are used delicately with the canvas to make Vietnamese silk paintings. The delicate white color found in the sky, water, or human portrait, is the color of silk. The color of silk is well known to describe human figure in the paintings of many famous Vietnamese artists. Delicate color and silk background give the paintings such an harmony with the nature. Whatever style they follow, silk painters must have an intimate knowledge of the material and fully exploit its shininess and its attractiveness. Painting silk is full of changing and unexpected characteristics, and a wrong stroke of the brush is irreversible.

These paintings are made by the Vietnamese artists in Hue, central of Vietnam (110km from North of Da Nang.) These paintings are about the beauty of Hue, the most splendid royal capital of Vietnam, and of other famous provinces of Vietnam. This is an interesting collection that reflects the beauty of Vietnam via various landscapes and Vietnamese daily activities. The bamboo scroll silk paintings are made in the north of Vietnam. The oriental bamboo scrolls are perfect frames for the paintings.

Thanks Do Xuan Manh for this lovely set of covers and stamps !