Paintings in 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 Hanoi or Ha Noi ( or ; vi, Hà Nội ) is the capital and second-largest city of Vietnam. It covers an area of . It consists of 12 urban districts, one district-leveled town and 17 rural districts. Located within the Red River Delta, Hanoi i ...

Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making ...

. It is a museum showcasing Vietnam's

fine art In European academic traditions, fine art is developed primarily for aesthetics or creative expression, distinguishing it from decorative art or applied art, which also has to serve some practical function, such as pottery or most metalwor ...

s from a range of historical periods. It is the country's primary art museum, the second being the smaller

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 ...

. The Museum exhibits Vietnam's fine arts from the Ancient time till the Modern time. Much of the 20th Century art presented in the museum is concerned with folk narratives of a nation in defence. As a collection it draws on themes of martyrdom, patriotism, military strategy and overcoming enemy incursion. The museum presents a small collection of late 20th and early 21st Century painting, including works by artists exploring abstraction and abstract impressionism, giving greater attention to the individualist artist. The site, 66

Nguyễn Thái Học Street Nguyễn Thái Học Street (phố Nguyễn Thái Học) is a major street in Ba Đình District, Hanoi. History The old name of the Street was Duvillier Street, but became known as phố Hàng Đẫy. Under the French this became Rue Duvillier ...

, was selected by painter

Nguyễn Đỗ Cung Nguyễn Đỗ Cung (1912 - 22 September 1977) was a Vietnamese artist. He was a student of EBAI in Hanoi. In 1946, he was one of the first, with Tô Ngọc Vân and Nguyễn Thị Kim to make portraits of Ho Chi Minh. In 1963, Cung was entrusted ...

in 1963. The building, built in 1937, was an abandoned Catholic girl's boarding house.Nora Taylor ''Painters in Hanoi: an ethnography of Vietnamese art'' Page 56 2009. Next door at No. 65 was an artists' colony.

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Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts at Frommer's
French colonial architecture in Vietnam Museums in Hanoi Art museums and galleries in Vietnam {{Vietnam-struct-stub