Nguyễn Văn Duyến, art name Tú Duyên (20 December 1915, in Bát Tràng, Bắc Ninh – May 3, 2012) was a Vietnamese

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

. Nguyễn Văn Duyến was born in the pottery village of Bát Tràng near Hanoi. 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 in Hanoi from 1927 to 1945. He was initially appointed as an assistant to Victor Tardieu, the fo ...

, then a student at the École des Beaux-Arts de l'Indochine from 1935-1942. Duyên moved to

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in 1942, making silk and paper Đông Hồ 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 '' Truyện Kiều'', the ''

Chinh phụ ngâm The ''Chinh phụ ngâm'' ("Lament of the soldier's wife", 征婦吟) is a poem in classical Chinese written by the Vietnamese author Đặng Trần Côn (1710-1745). It is also called the ''Chinh phụ ngâm khúc'' (征婦吟曲), with the additio ...

'' of the poet

Đặng Trần Côn Đặng Trần Côn ( Chữ Hán: ; born Trần Côn; c. 1705-1745) was the author of the '' Chinh phụ ngâm'' a masterpiece of Chữ Hán literature of Vietnam. Đặng Trần Côn was born in Nhân Mục village (or Nhân Mọc), Thanh Trì d ...

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

Ho Chi Minh City Museum of Fine Arts Ho Chi Minh City Museum of Fine Arts is the major art museum of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and second in the country only to the Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts in Hanoi. The museum covers three three-floor buildings which house a collectio ...

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

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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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