Vũ Giáng Hương Explained

Vũ Giáng Hương (Bac Ninh, 23 January 1930–20 August 2011) was a Vietnamese woman painter. She was well known for her graceful silk paintings.^{[1] [2]} She graduated from the Vietnam College of Fine Arts in 1960. From 1989 to 1994 she was general secretary of Vietnam's Arts Association.^[3]

Her parents were the writer Vũ Ngọc Phan and the poet Hằng Phương.

Notes and References

1. Vietnam Fine Arts Museum - Page 14 Bảo tàng mỹ thuật Việt Nam - 2000 "... silky smooth and graceful through the works of several famous artists such as Nguyễn Thụ, Linh Chi, Trấn Đông Lương, Vũ Giáng Hương ~ Silk paintings are not very large in size but this does not in any way limit their comprehensiveness"
2. http://lecourrier.vnanet.vn/lecourrier/fr-fr/details/28/culture/54459/memoire-du-temps-a-la-memoire-de-la-peintre-vu-giang-huong.aspx "Mémoire du temps", à la mémoire de la peintre Vu Giang Huong
3. Nora A. Taylor - Painters in Hanoi: an ethnography of Vietnamese art - Page 144 2009 "Vu Giang Huong (Vũ Giáng Hương) Born 1930; graduate of the Vietnam College of Fine Arts, 1960; 1957-1989 served on the executive committee of the arts association; 1989— 1994 general secretary of the arts association."