Silk painting series "Summer song" - melody of gentle life

Harmonious details between liveliness and stillness in Truong Van Ngoc's silk paintings.

With the main colors of yellow and blue, the silk paintings bring viewers into a space of silence, purity and inner peace. Choosing silk as the material, 9x generation artist Truong Van Ngoc has put himself in a double challenge: having to moderate the color palette to highlight the mystery, while also focusing on every smallest detail, because silk does not allow for noise.

The silk and colors in artist Truong Van Ngoc’s paintings are like a light mist covering the natural world . There, each lotus petal, leaf, and gently flowing water trace seems to resonate in the viewer’s eyes.

The highlight of the "Summer Song" series is the limited color palette but contains rich connotations. Gold is as golden as the sunlight on the lotus petals in the early morning, like the color of the pensive pistil before fading.

The lotus and kingfisher are depicted gracefully by the artist.

Green, sometimes is not exactly the color of leaves but many layers of shades: from the light green of buds, the moss green of mud, to the jade green of water. These two colors seem to blend, penetrate, opening up the depth of space, at the same time carrying the symbolic meaning of quiet vitality.

The lotus in Truong Van Ngoc's paintings is not alone. It is a shelter, a gathering place for tiny creatures that can be seen with the naked eye: kingfishers silently waiting for prey, small frogs clinging to lotus leaves, mantises spreading their legs like a poet dancing with their pen in the air, bees flying around like musicians in a colorful symphony...

On another level, the artist focuses on small creatures: frogs, mantises...

These creatures are not only supporting elements but also the main characters, the rhythms of the "song" called summer. Through them, the artist conveys a compassionate, humble, and tolerant view: beauty is not in its grandeur, but needs to be felt through listening and understanding.

Choosing silk paintings - a traditional material that is difficult to conquer and requires a high level of sophistication - is always a challenge, especially for young artists like Truong Van Ngoc.

The beauty of the lotus is expressed through many moments.

In a context where most contemporary artists turn to acrylic, oil, or mixed media to express their breakthrough and strong personality, his choice of silk can be considered "going against the current".

Unlike other materials that can be “corrected”, silk almost does not allow the artist to make mistakes. Each brush stroke, each pen stroke, once the color has been absorbed into the silk thread, cannot be retracted, nor can it be added if it is not intentional. This requires skillful technique, the ability to control the brushwork and delicate consideration right from the beginning of the concept. That is the thin line that silk painters must face.

A small bee was also included by the artist as a character "telling the story" of summer.

According to experts, the journey of painting on silk can be compared to the spirit of "holding" and "letting go". The artist needs to harmonize the humidity, spread and absorption of the color.

To do so, the painter must both control the color spread with technique, and accept the natural spread of color in places that need to be blurred. It is in this "tug of war" that the artistry of silk painting is formed from the harmony between people and materials.

Silk comes in many varieties and each presents a challenge to the artist.

For a young artist like Truong Van Ngoc, choosing to paint on silk shows a tendency to not follow the noise but to stick to the path of silence and depth.

Young people are often attracted by speed, strong visual effects, and violent colors; but he chose a slow, difficult, and backward journey that requires the mindset of a practitioner. It is both a respect for tradition and a way to create a unique visual language in an age of image saturation.

Each work in the "Summer Song" series bears the mark of inner cultivation, in each step of rigorous training.

Combining yellow and green tones with tiny creatures requires a keen eye, talent and patience. Highlighting the fragile beauty without being cheesy; depicting the liveliness while remaining meditative... is what silk painters always aim for.

Deep in silence is contemplation of life.

"Summer Song" is not a purely natural painting, but a way of "practicing" through painting. The painting does not depict summer in a noisy way, nor does it depict lotus in a symbolic way, but it is a way for a person to slow down, quietly contemplate life and paint in a meditative form.

The empty spaces in the paintings: the distant, hazy sky, the uncovered silk background... are the artist's way of inviting the public to step in and continue writing his own melody and color.

One of the favorite works of collectors.

The series of paintings in particular and the general inspiration of Truong Van Ngoc's paintings are an invitation to enter the world of forgotten beauty. In that world, silk is breath, yellow and green are emotional tones and small creatures become symbols of enduring life.

Sharing about the painting series "Summer Song", artist Truong Van Ngoc does not claim to follow a great school or concept, he confides very simply, just like the atmosphere the works bring to viewers.

"I just want to capture every moment of summer that is so close but may have passed by. There are so many small, enduring, and vivid beauties. They are always there, and will even return, it's just whether we see them clearly or not," the artist said.

Every detail is meticulously crafted by the artist.

The artist believes that it is necessary to observe, listen, and patiently collect and accumulate even the smallest vibrations of life so that painting is a way to "revive" presence. When asked about his choice of silk material, Truong Van Ngoc said that it is a material that suits his personality, but he still had to go through a journey with other materials before he could conquer silk.

Paintings are people, Truong Van Ngoc's works contain calmness, tolerance, letting nature, materials, and space speak for themselves. For that reason, "Summer Song" makes us want to stop, look, and listen longer to the small things around us.

Another elaborate work is being completed by the author.

"I want people to remember the cool feeling of dew on a lotus petal, the smell of mud wafting up on a summer afternoon, or the tiny shape of an insect that is easily hidden somewhere, and then realize that those pieces contain their memories, their childhood, their recollections," the artist confided.

Each word shared is gentle and deep like the soft color streaks on the silk background. On the path that requires patience, Truong Van Ngoc does not try to explain but chooses to live in it. From there, the simple, delicate beauty is revealed, creating a unique identity for the young artist who is quietly walking on the challenging path called silk painting.

MAI LU

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