Artist Le Sa ​​Long paints and sells paintings because 'I love my people so much'

Artist Le Sa ​​Long said that on the afternoon of September 12, when General Secretary and President To Lam and the working delegation inspected flood and storm prevention work and visited and encouraged people in flooded and storm-affected areas in Truong Sinh commune (Son Duong district, Tuyen Quang ), he was moved when he saw those images in the press. And he sat down and painted without stopping.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visited the scene of the landslide in Lang Nu village ( Lao Cai ) to direct the recovery process.

Soldiers help people evacuate

Ministry of Defense sends planes to transport relief goods to Cao Bang

He added that when he watched the news and saw Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh come to the scene of the terrible landslide in Lang Nu village (Lao Cai) to direct the recovery of the consequences of the storm and flood, he decided to finish the paintings early to sell them to raise money to help his fellow countrymen.

Viewers will be particularly impressed with the painting Where is my house? Where are my parents? when it depicts the image of a village girl carrying her younger sibling home from a trip and being shocked by the tragedy. She looks up at the blue sky as if asking a big question: "Where is my house, where are my parents, siblings, neighbors?"

Or the painting of a child being rescued from the rubble of a landslide in Lao Cai on September 13th moved everyone. The scene of the Ministry of National Defense dispatching planes to deliver relief goods to Cao Bang and the image of soldiers helping people stabilize their lives after storms and floods in the new works of artist Le Sa ​​Long brought warmth to viewers.

This is not the first time artist Le Sa ​​Long has sold paintings to do charity work. For a long time, he has been enthusiastic in donation programs to help flood victims in Central Vietnam, giving Nguyen Thai Binh scholarships ( Thanh Nien Newspaper), helping the poor...

Soldiers help people stabilize their lives after storms and floods

Artist Le Sa ​​Long (member of the Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts Association) is a familiar name in the art world, especially in the field of portrait painting. He won first prize in portrait sketching organized by the Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts Association in 1999. In particular, he impressed readers with the paintings Masks and Famous People (2020) and Saigon in the Time of Social Distancing (2021)...

With nearly 30 years of experience in the profession, painter Le Sa ​​Long is a veteran "brushman". He has won many prestigious fine arts awards: second prize in the Drawing contest about the country and people of Romania (2019), first prize in the Watercolor Sketch Portrait contest organized by the Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts Association (1999), consolation prize in the 2012 Bamboo Dragon Cup organized by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and received the honorary certificate of Binh Dinh Fine Arts 20 years in 2015.

Le Sa ​​Long is originally from Quy Nhon (Binh Dinh) and was born in Sa Dec (Dong Thap). Because of his passion for painting since childhood, after leaving the army, he studied at the Ho Chi Minh City University of Fine Arts. After graduating, he devoted himself to teaching.

Thanh Nien Online would like to introduce some more works in the photo collection "Love you so much, my compatriots" by artist Le Sa ​​Long:

Picture Where is my house? Where are my parents?

Student Nguyen Huynh Bao Nhi (Kien Thiet Secondary School, District 3, Ho Chi Minh City) donated all her savings to support people in the North.

Nathan Keers uses a boat to deliver rice to people isolated by floods in Thai Nguyen.

A child was rescued from the rubble of a landslide in Lao Cai on September 13.

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