Nguyễn Sáng Explained

Nguyễn Sáng (1923, in Tien Giang Province – 1988, in Ho Chi Minh City) was a Vietnamese painter.^[1] He was a graduate of the 1940–1945 class of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de l'Indochine. His favorite medias were pumice lacquer and oil paint.^[2] Although not overtly political,^[3] Sáng was reluctant and unenthusiastic about the new communist society in his paintings.^[4] He was posthumously awarded the Ho Chi Minh Prize in 1996.

Works

• Self-portrait, 1956
• Portrait of Painter Duong Bich Lien, 1964

Some of his works are in the Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts, Hanoi.

Notes and References

1. Insight Guides - Vietnam 2002 Page 110 "the most notable include.... Nguyen Sang..."
2. http://www.lachonggallery.com/artists/nguyen_sang_pf.htm NGUYEN SANG (1923 - 1988)
3. Nora A. Taylor Painters in Hanoi: an ethnography of Vietnamese art 2009- Page 75 "Bui Xuan Phai, Nguyen Sang, Nguyen Tu Nghiem, and Duong Bich Lien were not the most subversive of painters; others, such as Nguyen Sy Ngoc, and the poet Tran Dan, were put into much more strenuous positions vis-avis the political ..."
4. Hue-Tam Ho Tai -The Country of Memory: Remaking the Past in Late Socialist Vietnam 2001 Page 125 "Nguyen Sang's characters seem at home amid the deterioration of Hanoi streets and the degeneration of Vietnamese society as he saw it"