Nguyễn Sáng (1923, in Tien Giang Province – 1988, in Ho Chi Minh City) was a Vietnamese painter. He was a graduate of the 1940–1945 class of the

Ecole des Beaux-Arts de l'Indochine The Vietnam University of Fine Arts (formerly ''Hanoi College of Fine Arts'') is an art school in Hanoi, Vietnam originally established under French colonial rule in 1925. The university has trained many of Vietnam’s leading artists and each year ...

. His favorite medias were

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lacquer and oil paint. Although not overtly political, Sáng was reluctant and unenthusiastic about the new communist society in his paintings.Hue-Tam Ho Tai -''The Country of Memory: Remaking the Past in Late Socialist Vietnam'' 2001 Page 125 "Nguyen Sang's characters seem at home amid the deterioration of Hanoi streets and the degeneration of Vietnamese society as he saw it" He was posthumously awarded the

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in 1996. File:Nguyen_Sang_Ladies.jpg, Girls at Hoan Kiem Lake, lacquer on wood Nguyen Sang Cats.jpg, Cats, lacquer

Works

* Self-portrait, 1956 * Portrait of Painter Duong Bich Lien, 1964 Some of his works are in the

Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts The Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts ( vi, Viện Bảo tàng Mỹ thuật Việt Nam; vi-hantu, 院寶藏美術越南; french: Musée des Beaux-Arts du Viêt Nam) is located in Hanoi, Vietnam. It is a museum showcasing Vietnam's fine arts fr ...

, Hanoi.

References

1923 births 1988 deaths People from Tiền Giang province 20th-century Vietnamese painters Ho Chi Minh Prize recipients {{Vietnam-painter-stub