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Witness Collection
Witness Collection is one of the largest private collections of Vietnamese art in the world. It conducts detailed research into the art in its collection and Vietnam's 20th century history, as well as providing state-of-the-art conservation. The collection comprises approximately 2,000 works of Vietnamese modern and contemporary art since the early 20th century. The collection includes more than 120 Vietnamese artists, whose careers documented the changes that occurred in Vietnam during its recent history. Subjects range from folk, academic and propaganda art, in styles that include but are not limited to socialist realism, cubism, expressionism and abstraction. The collection reveals diverse social, political and historical commentaries. Collection History Witness Collection's origin traces to the founder's ambition to document Vietnam's post-war condition in 1984. The first works were acquired in Hanoi in 1987, including watercolours, silks, woodblock prints and drawings of v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Tardieu
Victor François Tardieu (30 April 1870, Orliénas - 12 June 1937, Hanoi) was a French painter; cofounder of what is now known as the Vietnam University of Fine Arts. Biography In 1887, he was admitted to the École nationale des beaux-arts de Lyon. After two years there, he transferred to the Académie Julian in Paris, where he studied for a year. In 1890, he entered the École des beaux-arts de Paris, with the advice and support of Léon Bonnat. He was employed in the workshops of Bonnat and Albert Maignan until 1894. He also collaborated with a stained glass artist, producing a series of glass boxes. In 1902, he married the harpist, Caroline Luigini, daughter of the composer and conductor, Alexandre Luigini. They had one son, the writer Jean Tardieu. Shortly after, at the Salon of the Société des artistes français, he won an award that came with a travel grant, allowing him to visit London, Liverpool and Genoa. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nguyễn Thanh Châu
Nguyễn Thanh Châu (4 January 1939-20 April 2012) was a Vietnamese war artist whose career documented the Second Indochina War. He was born in Tịnh Thới village, Cao Lãnh Province (now known as Đồng Tháp Province) in the Mekong Delta. He joined the Việt Minh in 1953 to fight in the Anti-colonial Resistance War against the French. After the end of the First Indochina War he moved north with his family to Hanoi and enrolled in the oil painting intermediary course at the Vietnam Fine Arts College under director Trần Văn Cẩn from 1956 to 1959. In 1960, he was sent to the Soviet Union to study watercolour painting at the All-Ukrainian Art Institute in Kiev, which provided the basic skills behind much of his future work. After Kiev, he studied in Moscow with his contemporary Lê Lam, before returning to Vietnam in 1964. He joined the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) in 1966. After a nine month journey down the Ho Chi Minh Trail, through Laos and Cambodia, Châu arrive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War (1 November 1955 – 30 April 1975) was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam (Democratic Republic of Vietnam) and South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam) and their allies. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union and China, while South Vietnam was supported by the United States and other anti-communist nations. The conflict was the second of the Indochina wars and a proxy war of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and US. The Vietnam War was one of the postcolonial wars of national liberation, a theater in the Cold War, and a civil war, with civil warfare a defining feature from the outset. Direct United States in the Vietnam War, US military involvement escalated from 1965 until its withdrawal in 1973. The fighting spilled into the Laotian Civil War, Laotian and Cambodian Civil Wars, which ended with all three countries becoming Communism, communist in 1975. After the defeat of the French Union in the First Indoc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Điện Biên Phủ
The Battle of Điện Biên Phủ was a climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War that took place between 13 March and 7 May 1954. It was fought between the forces of the French Union and Viet Minh. The French began an operation to insert, and support, their soldiers at Điện Biên Phủ, deep in the autonomous Tai Federation in northwest Tonkin. The operation's purpose was to cut off enemy supply lines into the neighboring Kingdom of Laos (a French ally) and draw the Viet Minh into a major confrontation in order to cripple them. The French based their forces in an isolated but well-fortified camp that would be resupplied by air, a strategy adopted based on the belief that the Viet Minh had no anti-aircraft capability. The communist Viet Minh, however, under General Võ Nguyên Giáp, surrounded and besieged the French. They brought in vast amounts of heavy artillery (including anti-aircraft guns) and managed to move these bulky weapons through difficult terrain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Bank Of Vietnam
The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV; ) is the central bank of Vietnam. Organized as a Ministry (government department), ministry-level body under the Government of Vietnam, it is the sole issuer of the national currency, the Vietnamese đồng. As of 2024 it holds over USD 100 million in foreign exchange reserves. History When Indochina was under French Indochina, French rule, the colonial government governed the Indochinese monetary system through Banque de l'Indochine, which also acted as a commercial bank in French Indochina. After the August Revolution in 1945, the government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam gradually attempted to exercise a monetary system independent from France. On 6 May 1951, president Ho Chi Minh, Hồ Chí Minh signed decree 15/SL on establishment of Vietnam National Bank (''Ngân hàng Quốc gia Việt Nam''). On 21 January 1960, the governor of the bank signed an ordinance on behalf of the prime minister to rename the bank State Bank of Vietnam ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Truth (Vietnam Newspaper)
The Truth may refer to: Film * ''The Truth'' (1920 film) starring Madge Kennedy * ''The Truth'' (1960 film) or ''La Vérité'', a French film by Henri-Georges Clouzot starring Brigitte Bardot * ''The Truth'' (1988 film), a Hong Kong trial crime drama film by Taylor Wong * ''The Truth'' (1998 film), an Indian Malayalam film by Shaji Kailas * ''The Truth'' (2006 film), a British dark comic murder mystery * ''The Truth'' (2012 film) or ''A Dark Truth'', an American action thriller film by Damian Lee * ''The Truth'' (2019 film), or ''La Vérité'', a French-English drama film by Hirokazu Kore-eda Literature * ''The Truth'' (novel), a 2000 Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett * '' The Truth (with Jokes)'', a 2005 book by Al Franken * '' The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships'', a 2015 book by Neil Strauss * ''The Truth'', a 2012 novel by Michael Palin * ''Pauline Hanson: The Truth'', a 1997 book by Australian politician Pauline Hanson Music Artists * The Truth (Aus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Việt Bắc
Việt Bắc (''Northern Vietnam'') is a region of Vietnam north of Hanoi that served as the Việt Minh's base of support during the First Indochina War (1946–1954). Việt Bắc is also called the capital of northernmost Vietnam because this area was the location of the headquarters of the Communist Party of Vietnam at the period before the rising against French domination in 1945, and the location of the headquarters of the Việt Minh government during the war of resistance against the French colonialists. Administrative divisions The Việt Bắc Interzone (''Liên khu Việt Bắc'') was an administrative region consisting of 17 provinces: Cao Bằng, Bắc Kạn, Lạng Sơn, Thái Nguyên, Hà Giang, Tuyên Quang, Lào Cai, Yên Bái, Sơn La, Lai Châu, Bắc Giang, Bắc Ninh Bắc Ninh () is a city in the Northern Vietnam, northern part of Vietnam and is the capital of Bắc Ninh province. The city is the cultural, administrative and commercial center ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ho Chi Minh
(born ; 19 May 1890 – 2 September 1969), colloquially known as Uncle Ho () among other aliases and sobriquets, was a Vietnamese revolutionary and politician who served as the founder and first President of Vietnam, president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam from 1945 until his death in 1969, and as its first Prime Minister of Vietnam, prime minister from 1945 to 1955. Ideologically a Marxism–Leninism, Marxist–Leninist, he founded the Indochinese Communist Party in 1930 and its successor Workers' Party of Vietnam (later the Communist Party of Vietnam) in 1951, serving as the party's chairman until his death. was born in Nghệ An province in French Indochina, and received a French education. Starting in 1911, he worked in various countries overseas, and in 1920 was a founding member of the French Communist Party in Paris. After studying in Moscow, Hồ founded the Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth League in 1925, which he transformed into the Indochinese Commu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thái Hà
Nguyễn Như Huân, known later in life and more commonly as Thái Hà (18 December 1922 – 12 October 2005), was a celebrated Vietnamese lacquer artist whose career spanned the First Indochina War and the Second Indochina War. Early life Thái Hà was born in Tân Hồng Commune, Từ Sơn district, Bắc Ninh province, a village famous for lacquer painting. He regularly visited local artisans to learn about lacquer techniques. His father was a teacher during French colonial rule. Education He started his preparatory studies in Hanoi at the École des Beaux-Arts de l'Indochine in 1940. His principal teacher at the École des Beaux-Arts de l'Indochine was French painter Joseph Inguimberty. At the start of American bombing against Japanese occupying forces in Vietnam in December 1943, Hà was evacuated along with the École des Beaux-Arts de l'Indochine and his painting class to Sơn Tây, Hanoi, Sơn Tây, where he continued his studies. In 1944, he joined what was to bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nguyễn Ðức Thọ
Nguyễn Ðức Thọ (20 September 1945) is a Vietnamese artist who was North Vietnamese war artist whose career spanned the Second Indochina War (also known as the Vietnam War). He was born in Hà Nam Province into a family with strong ties to the revolution against French colonialism. His mother and father donated fabric and bicycles to the Việt Minh. After studying the intermediate art course at the Vietnam Fine Arts College, he joined the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) in May 1965 during the heightened American bombing campaign of Operation Linebacker. First serving as a regular soldier in a missile unit, he was later sent to the Soviet Union for training and education on missile systems as a soldier and engineer. He became a war artist after his unit recognized his talent for art, and due to the army's natural demand for art. He was in charge of making banners, decorating meeting halls and drawing propaganda posters for his unit. However, he also made images for purely doc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phan Kế An
Phan Kế An (20 March 1923 – 21 January 2018), also known under the pseudonym Phan Kích, was a Vietnamese painter and renowned lacquer artist. He was the son of Phan Kế Toại (1892–1973) who was the personal envoy to Tonkin of the last Emperor of Vietnam, Bảo Đại, the Minister of Home Affairs (1945-1955) and former deputy prime minister of North Vietnam from 1955-1973. Early life and career Phan Kế An studied at Bưởi school under famous teachers such as Lê Thị Lựu, Tô Ngọc Vân, and Nguyễn Tường Lân. He enrolled into the École des Beaux Arts de l'Indochine in 1944, but then joined the Việt Minh guerrillas before graduating along with many other artists from his class. He was tasked with drawing anti-colonial caricatures on walls in French occupied territory. In 1947, at 24 years-old, he was asked by General Secretary, Trường Chinh, to join ''Sự Thật'' newspaper (the predecessor of ''Nhân Dân'' newspaper). In his role as commiss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
