Kim Hoàng painting () is a genre of

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woodcut Woodcut is a relief printing technique in printmaking. An artist carves an image into the surface of a block of wood—typically with gouges—leaving the printing parts level with the surface while removing the non-printing parts. Areas that ...

paintings originated from Kim Hoàng village of Hoài Đức,

Hanoi Hanoi ( ; ; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Vietnam, second-most populous city of Vietnam. The name "Hanoi" translates to "inside the river" (Hanoi is bordered by the Red River (Asia), Red and Black River (Asia), Black Riv ...

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. In the past, Kim Hoàng painting was a popular element of the

Tết Tết (, ), short for (; ), is the most important celebration in Vietnamese culture. Tết celebrates the arrival of spring based on the Vietnamese calendar and usually falls on January or February in the Gregorian calendar. is not to be co ...

holiday, together with

Đông Hồ Đông Hồ is a village in the Song Hồ commune (, ), in Thuận Thành District, Bắc Ninh Province, Vietnam. It is one of several well known "craft villages", with the other most notable ones being Non Nước marble village () and Cam Ne ...

and

Hàng Trống painting Hàng Trống painting () is a genre of Vietnamese woodcut painting that originated from the area of Hàng Trống ( vi) and Hàng Nón streets in the Old Quarter of Hanoi, Vietnam. In the past, Hàng Trống painting was an essential element of ...

, but this tradition was lost in the middle of the 20th century and today several authentic pictures of Kim Hoàng painting are found only in museums or fine art galleries. However, the art of making Kim Hoàng painting is still considered a symbol of traditional culture and aesthetic value of Vietnam.

Themes and making

Produced in the countryside as

Đông Hồ painting Ðông Hồ painting (), full name Đông Hồ folk woodcut painting () is a line of Vietnamese folk painting originating in Đông Hồ village (Song Hồ commune, Thuận Thành District, Bắc Ninh Province). With the consent of the Prime Mi ...

, pictures of Kim Hoàng share many common themes with ones of Đông Hồ such as everyday activities, animals and sprititual signs. The distinct feature of Kim Hoàng painting is several lines of poem written in form of chữ thảo at the left corner of the painting, the content of those lines along with the illustration help emphasize the meaning of the picture. The popular examples of Kim Hoàng painting are ''Gà độc'' (''Cockerel'') and ''Lợn độc'' (''Pig''). The

s of Kim Hoàng village are more delicate and detailed than ones of Đông Hồ village, they are used to print in sheets of paper which are dyed beforehand with red or yellow colours, the red ones are called giấy hồng điều (scarlet paper) and the yellow ones is giấy vàng tầu (Chinese yellow paper). The colours used in making Kim Hoàng painting are obtained from black

Chinese ink India ink (British English: Indian ink; also Chinese ink) is a simple black or coloured ink once widely used for writing and printing and now more commonly used for drawing and outlining, especially when inking comic books and comic strips. I ...

and other natural materials such as white

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, red

vermilion Vermilion (sometimes vermillion) is a color family and pigment most often used between antiquity and the 19th century from the powdered mineral cinnabar (a form of mercury sulfide). It is synonymous with red orange, which often takes a moder ...

and yellow

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. To strengthen the durability of the colours, the craftsmen often mixed colour paints with glue extracted from buffalo skin. Like the production of

, Kim Hoàng craftsmen only used the woodblocks to create the black outlines and then drew and coloured details by their own hands. For this reason, pictures of a subject, although outlined by the same woodcut, are slightly different from one to another, thus they become more valuable and attractive to customers.

History

The origin of Kim Hoàng painting was dated back to the 18th century during the reign of the

Lê dynasty The Lê dynasty, also known in historiography as the Later Lê dynasty (, chữ Hán: 朝後黎, chữ Nôm: 茹後黎), officially Đại Việt (; Chữ Hán: 大越), was the longest-ruling List of Vietnamese dynasties, Vietnamese dynasty, h ...

. The pictures were made in the Kim Hoàng village, now in Hoài Đức (

), which was one of the few place where folk paintings were made in Vietnam during the dynastic time, along with Hàng Trống, Đông Hồ and Sình village. Kim Hoàng painting was well received in the 19th century but the tradition of making pictures gradually declined and ultimately lost in the middle of the 20th century. One of the main factor that led to the extinction of the manufacture was a flood in 1915 which destroyed almost all original woodblocks of the village. Nowadays, authentic Kim Hoàng pictures are only found in museums and galleries.

Pig paintings Kim Hoàng typical and popular

Pig paintings are known as the unique artwork of the Kim Hoàng painting series. Painting has religious meaning and good luck, so it is very popular when it comes to the new year. Kim Hoàng Picture of the pig brings a bohemian and natural line with a clever combination of colors and highlights on the red paper. Pig paintings own unique beauty, highly symbolic. The artisan shows a liberal drawing that makes the image of a more stylized pig with details replaced by a pattern but still retains its inherent soul. The pig's ears disappear instead of spiraling motifs, the definitive strokes of the pen are extremely impressive. Kim Hoàng Painting is different from other people's paintings in that it is a combination of printing, coloring and skillfully drawing to create a flexible but definitive line. This is a line of folk paintings with Vietnamese cultural beauty that needs to be handed down and preserved. Hopefully, the information shared from the article will help you no longer be surprised when it comes to folk paintings Kim Hoàng.

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Themes and making

History

Pig paintings Kim Hoàng typical and popular

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