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Vietnamese art is art created in Vietnam or by Vietnamese artists, from ancient times to the present.

Introduction
Vietnamese art has a long and rich history, the earliest examples of which date back as far as the Stone Age around 8,000 BCE.

With the millennium of Chinese domination starting in the 2nd century BC, Vietnamese art undoubtedly absorbed many Chinese influences, which would continue even following independence from China in the 10th century AD. However, Vietnamese art has always retained many distinctively Vietnamese characteristics.

By the 19th century, the influence of French art took hold in Vietnam, having a large hand in the birth of modern Vietnamese art.

Tran Van Can was born in August 1910 in the northern province of Bac Ninh. He graduated from the Indochina Fine Arts College in 1936. As a student of art, Can was influenced by Josheph Inguimberty (1896-1971), one of the founders of the college.
Tran Van Can died in 1994 in Ha Noi at the age of 75.

Bui Xuan Phai (1920-1988) was one of the most remarkable, most charming and most unusual figures of Vietnamese modern art. When he graduated from Frenchcreated Ecole des Beaux Arts d'Indochine in Hanoi (1925-1945), the world art was in its post-war period, one of drastic differentiation, Picasso, Mastisse, Leger already ranked among the classical masters. Europe gave full blast to the trend of lyrical abstractionism and America to that of expressionist one. All that was taken in by Bui Xuan Phai, by his heart's eye. And be managed to find his own dimension in the strict framework of the society and later, his art, like an underground water spring, spread far and wide and even impregnated alien souls with his sincerity.

Dương Bích was born in 1924 pass away 1988

Born in Viet Nam on August 2, 1907, Le Pho had a cosmopolitan background even as a young art student. He first studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Hanoi for five years from 1925 to 1930, and then at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris during the following two years. In 1933 on his return to Hanoi he was appointed professor in the Hanoi Ecole des Beaux-Arts, a post that he held from 1933 to 1936.

Ông là hoạ sĩ có tư tưởng, giải quyết vấn đề xă hội lớn lao, gay cấn rất nhuần nhị, lay động với h́nh hoạ và màu sắc hiện đại, giản dị mà không khô khan, không sáo rỗng bởi con tim thành thực yêu thương cùng với tài năng biến ảo, đa dạng.

In around 140 completed paintings of Vietnam’s famous painter Nguyen Phan Chanh, there are now only about 50 of these in Vietnam. About two third of his paintings are now still somewhere around the world. His family does not know clearly about them. But recently, some of these paintings have been found.