Showing posts with label painting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label painting. Show all posts
Saturday, August 3, 2013
Monday, June 18, 2012
American artist exhibits 3D street painting in Vietnam
American artist exhibits 3D street painting in Vietnam
June 19, 2012
LookAtVietnam – Internationally recognized American street painter, Tracy Lee Stum, has completed a 3D painting called Snow Lotus, which is open to public on June 16-17 at Youth Cultural House, 4 Pham Ngoc Thach, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City.
“3D paintings require the artist to be meticulous, taking care of small details and calculating precisely, to bring the best effects to viewers,” she said.
Tracy said there is always a best position to stand and take pictures of a 3D painting. However, sometimes it is the visitors who discover new angels to take photos which show best the 3D effects.
Born in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, Tracy privately as a child and completed a 4 year Bachelor’s degree program at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. She continued her studies in naturalism at the Florence Academy of Art in Italy.
Tracy has participated as an invited featured artist in many festivals and events in the US, Canada, Japan, Korea, China where her paintings have won numerous awards accolades.
Currently, she holds a Guinness World Record set in 2006for the largest street painting by an individual.
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| The last Supper, 2006, a world record. |
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The bridge, 2012, USA
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Tuoitre/VNE/VNN
Monday, September 6, 2010
After nearly 1000 days, nine artisans of XQ Da Lat embroidery painting company have completed a 4 meter-long painting as a gift for Hanoi’s 1000th birthday.
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The giant embroidery painting is 3×4m in size and it required 157.5kg of thread. If these numbers are multiplied, the result will be 2010.
The embroidery painting features a brilliant lotus and the letter “S” for Vietnam in the lotus lake, with a temple, clouds, moon, cranes, and old villages.
The giant painting began its trip from Da Lat to Hanoi on September 2. The procession will last for 24 days, through 14 provinces and cities.
The procession will total 300 members when the painting arrives in Hanoi.
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PV
Monday, January 11, 2010
Artist ‘paints’ with rice | Look At Vietnam
Artisan Ho Nghia began producing a unique form of art in 2008, using grains of rice to create elaborate images.
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| A rice painting created by local artisan Ho Nghia. (Photo: SGGP) |
The rice paintings are meticulously crafted. Each individual grain must be slim, firm, and the same size. For this reason, the rice is always carefully selected.
The grains are then roasted for a length of time depending on the color tones required for the works which are drafted in advance. Finally, the rice is attached to paper according to the draft painting.
The longevity of rice paintings is around 2-3 years.
Nghia has now created 25 rice works, including portraits of the country’s leaders and scenes of Vietnamese villages.
VietNamNet/SGGP
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Painting village in season of altar paper works
Located in the northern province of Bac Ninh, Dong Ho village, which is widely known for its folk paintings, is seeing more and more of its artisans become altar paper work makers.
There is one month before lunar July’s full-moon day, commonly known as the Day of Forgiveness for Wandering Ghosts, when lots of altar paper works are bought and burned. And everywhere in Dong Ho village, people are busily preparing for this most profitable occasion of the year.
Along Duong River, motorbikes and trucks transporting paper puppets, hats, refrigerators and TVs these days are driving to and from the traditional painting village, the production activity of which no longer fits its name.
“Altar paper work making and painting went hand in hand for a long time here. From lunar January to July, people produced altar paper works. And from lunar August to Tet, they made folk paintings.
“But for the last decade, things have been different,” said artisan Nguyen Dang Che, one of the only three artisans of the village along with artisan Nguyen Huu Sam and Tran Nhat So who are still determined to preserve their traditional art and profession.
In the meantime, there are as many as 238 households in the village engaged in altar paper works all year round. These households often produce what they are best at, so some of them only make paper puppets, while in others, “underworld” motorbikes are all over the place.
Nguyen Van Ninh, who specialises in making paper vehicles, said, “Workers are members of the family ranging from old people to little kids. I sell my products to many provinces including Hoa Binh, Vinh Phuc and Phu Tho. But Hanoi and Hai Phong cities buy the most.”
A Honda SH paper motorbike, for instance, costs VND40,000 while the price for a painting of Mouse’s Wedding, a classic topic of Dong Hong folk paintings, is only VND2,000. “Nobody would believe me but the wooden slates used to make paintings by my grandpa have all been turned into chicken coops.
Folk paintings don’t sell so these wooden slates have to be put to other uses,” said Nguyen Duc Phong, another villager. To those like artisan Nguyen Dang Che, who is still treasuring his diverse collection of wooden slates, such a use of these precious slates is heart-breaking.
“Since 1995, I have searched for and bought the village’s last wooden slates. I know I have to hold on to these things,” said he. Each of these engraved wooden slates can only be used for one colour, so there are as many of them as the numbers of colours appearing on a painting. ]
Mr. Che’s collection includes a 200-year-old set and more than 100 other sets from 60 to 100 years of age. His dream is to build a museum of sorts to display them as well as over hundred-eye-old Dong Ho paintings before he dies.
Another local effort to help preserve the art is to reopen painting fairs at Dong Ho, or painting communal houses, where vibrant painting market sessions were once held every lunar December before Tet.
“People’s way of thinking is different now, so for the past year, the communal house has been standing there still, but nobody seems to remember painting markets,” said Ha Duy Phu, head of the local communal house vestige management board.
Huu Bac-Hoang Hanh
There is one month before lunar July’s full-moon day, commonly known as the Day of Forgiveness for Wandering Ghosts, when lots of altar paper works are bought and burned. And everywhere in Dong Ho village, people are busily preparing for this most profitable occasion of the year.
Along Duong River, motorbikes and trucks transporting paper puppets, hats, refrigerators and TVs these days are driving to and from the traditional painting village, the production activity of which no longer fits its name.
“Altar paper work making and painting went hand in hand for a long time here. From lunar January to July, people produced altar paper works. And from lunar August to Tet, they made folk paintings.
“But for the last decade, things have been different,” said artisan Nguyen Dang Che, one of the only three artisans of the village along with artisan Nguyen Huu Sam and Tran Nhat So who are still determined to preserve their traditional art and profession.
In the meantime, there are as many as 238 households in the village engaged in altar paper works all year round. These households often produce what they are best at, so some of them only make paper puppets, while in others, “underworld” motorbikes are all over the place.
Nguyen Van Ninh, who specialises in making paper vehicles, said, “Workers are members of the family ranging from old people to little kids. I sell my products to many provinces including Hoa Binh, Vinh Phuc and Phu Tho. But Hanoi and Hai Phong cities buy the most.”
A Honda SH paper motorbike, for instance, costs VND40,000 while the price for a painting of Mouse’s Wedding, a classic topic of Dong Hong folk paintings, is only VND2,000. “Nobody would believe me but the wooden slates used to make paintings by my grandpa have all been turned into chicken coops.
Folk paintings don’t sell so these wooden slates have to be put to other uses,” said Nguyen Duc Phong, another villager. To those like artisan Nguyen Dang Che, who is still treasuring his diverse collection of wooden slates, such a use of these precious slates is heart-breaking.
“Since 1995, I have searched for and bought the village’s last wooden slates. I know I have to hold on to these things,” said he. Each of these engraved wooden slates can only be used for one colour, so there are as many of them as the numbers of colours appearing on a painting. ]
Mr. Che’s collection includes a 200-year-old set and more than 100 other sets from 60 to 100 years of age. His dream is to build a museum of sorts to display them as well as over hundred-eye-old Dong Ho paintings before he dies.
Another local effort to help preserve the art is to reopen painting fairs at Dong Ho, or painting communal houses, where vibrant painting market sessions were once held every lunar December before Tet.
“People’s way of thinking is different now, so for the past year, the communal house has been standing there still, but nobody seems to remember painting markets,” said Ha Duy Phu, head of the local communal house vestige management board.
Huu Bac-Hoang Hanh
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