Van Duong Thanh Fine Arts Museum was officially recognized and established by the Ministry of Culture and interdisciplinary ministries 2023, or 20 years of preparing the collection. The villa has French architecture by Belgian designer and artist Van Duong Thanh – completed the year 2007. Here visitors will come into contact with painting, history, culture, Vietnamese art in miniature.

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Biography

Artist Tran Luu Hau, date of birth 3 month 10 year 1928, Born in Dong Da, Hanoi. He is one of the outstanding artists of the Resistance School of Fine Arts 1949, with painter To Ngoc Van as principal. Afterward, he continued to study fine arts at the Surikov Academy of Fine Arts, Moscow, Soviet Union.

During the period from year 1962 arrive 1989, He made a great contribution to the development of Vietnamese contemporary fine art, is the teacher of many famous artists such as Le Anh Van, Thanh Chuong, Dang Xuan Hoa…

Tran Luu Hau is one of the few pioneering artists pursuing post-impressionism and abstract expressionism in Vietnam..

Over the years 1980, when Vietnamese fine art was still steeped in realism, He and Bui Xuan Phai chose the path of post-impressionism, with an abstract expressionist painting style, created a wave of innovation in the arts.

Tran Luu Hau inspired subsequent generations to pursue an expressionist style. Even though I took a resistance course, then became an art instructor and worked as a stage designer, but he himself composes with a sweet realistic style.

The years 1980, His pioneering in post-impressionism and abstract expressionism is not only new in Vietnam but also in Southeast Asia and parts of Asia.. He showed that it is not necessary to choose a new school to create new works, Because creative thinking and the spirit of the work represent the work itself.

In my painting career, Tran Luu Hau returned to basic themes such as landscape, sea, grass, flowers and leaves, nude since late years 1980. His painting became simpler, with diagram lines, large pen strokes, long, create a rich space. With a combination of contrasting color pairs and sharp black-white strokes, he created works full of color and vitality.

Artist Tran Luu Hau is a gentle person, rustic, always love everyone. He is considered an expert painter in the use of color, with a free style, creative and liberal, creating strong and attractive brush strokes in his works, Bringing viewers impressive and constantly refreshing visual experiences in art.

The Road to Painting by Tran Luu Hau

In the field of painting, Artist Tran Luu Hau has shown diversity in his works, but is most appreciated for its use of original colors, Original colors in abstract paintings.

The theme of his works often revolves around resistance, natural landscape, Hanoi streets, rural landscape, still life... His works have been exhibited and attracted collections in many countries and territories around the world such as France, Virtue, Singapore, that, Hong Kong (China)… Some outstanding works in his collection are the painting "Ha Long Bay".

Tran Luu Hau is considered a pioneer painter in Vietnam in the field of expression, and he also inspired subsequent generations to pursue this style. To maintain that artistic style over a long period of time is not easy.

Firstly, he must maintain his health. He often works on large works, and work for hours in a day. Even at an age 80, He still went to Sa Pa by himself (Lao Cai) to compose monthly. Although drawing abstract works requires effort, but he never hesitated.

Monday, he must maintain his emotions. Tran Luu Hau is a person who loves life and is optimistic.

“The period of Tran Luu Hau's sublimation was when he was past his prime 70 and keep coming 90 years old” – as artist Pham Binh Chuong recalls – “It can feel a bit extraordinary, but that's the truth.

Artists do not know the retirement age, and creativity is always in sight. That is the greatest joy of an artist, and I feel like Tran Luu Hau is blessed with good health to do the work he loves.”

With painting, Tran Luu Hau returned to basic themes such as landscape, sea, grass, flowers and leaves, and nude since late years 1980. This was the period when the influence of the Soviet-style realistic painting style was still very strong in Vietnamese fine art. However, Tran Luu Hau continues to compose with a strong personal perspective. Industry researchers assess that, at that time, ông sử dụng những nét bút lớn, dài và mạnh mẽ, tạo ra những không gian tràn đầy sức sống.