Nguyen phan chanh biography

Nguyen Phan Chanh (July 21, 1892 - November 22, 1984) was born in a rural Vietnamese village, in Ha Tinh (now Nghe Tinh) province.
Nguyen Phan Chanh was born in a rural Vietnamese village, in Ha Tinh province.
Nguyen Phan Chanh (1892-1984) was born in Bat Tien hamlet, Trung Tiet commune, Thach Ha district, Ha Tinh province.

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Nguyen Phan Chanh, "Crab catcher," ink gouache on silk, 1938

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NGUYEN PHAN CHANH (Vietnamese, 1892-1984).

Chanh was born on July 21, 1892 into a poor but learned family. He received a classical Sino-Vietnamese education before going to a school run by the French colonial administration. He next attended the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Indochine between 1925 and 1930. It was there that he was encouraged to pursue his interest in painting on silk, which became his specialty.

After winning a painting prize in Paris in 1931 he built a career as a teacher, first at the Shaddock School and later at Hanoi Fine Art University. His best known works show the young women of rural Viet Nam. His daughter, Nguyet Tu remembered:

“My father’s life is closely attached to rural Vietnam. His memories of rural Vietnam are plentiful. If you see my father’s pictures, you will realize that he’s a painter of rural girls.”

Chanh’s silk painting

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Nguyen Phan Chanh

The 20^thcentury was the major turning point for Vietnamese art, with local artists becoming more liberal and avant-garde in their selection of colors and composition. The artworks typically portrayed the daily lives of the community, countryside, landscape, pagodas and historical events.

Nguyen Phan Chanh was born in a humble village of Ha Tinh province (Nghë Tinh) and raised in a family of Confucian scholars. A student from the first graduating class of the respected Ècole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de L’Indochine in 1930, Phan Chanh particularly showed interest in the silk medium. Silk painting was his forte and he became celebrated as both a modern and traditional silk artist in Vietnam. He fused together his classic Sino-Vietnamese training and conservative approach to aesthetics.

Having learned Chinese calligraphy at a young age, Phan Chanh was charmed by the elegant gestures and fluidity of the medium. He then discovered his own style of merging Western composition with the delicate and transparency of ink and gouache on

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Nguyễn Phan Chánh

Vietamese painter

Nguyen Phan Chanh (July 21, 1892 - November 22, 1984) was born in a rural Vietnamese village, in Ha Tinh (now Nghe Tinh) province. His early education was in Chinese (as was common in pre-colonial times), and he studied Chinese calligraphy so as to pass the qualifying exams for the title of Mandarin. However, the exams were abolished before he was old enough to sit them. With his first ambition thwarted, it was decided that he should continue studying painting at the l’Ecole des Beaux-arts d’Indochine ("the Indochinese College of Fine Arts") in Hanoi.^[1]

The pamphlets describing the goals for l’Ecole des Beaux-arts d’Indochine used the phrase “to transform the indigenous craftsmen into professional artists” which reflects the colonial mind-set of civilizing and educating ‘the natives’ (Taylor, 2004: 36). However, despite these rather condescending aims, Victor Tardieu, and his co-founder, Nam Son Nguyen Van Tho, and their colleague Joseph Imguimberty, in addition to introducing observation-based drawing classes, composition and