Nearly 90 works of famous painter Le Ba Dang repatriated

Le Ba Dang is passionate about pursuing and succeeding in drawing cats. The idea for the artist to draw cats is associated with the story from The Street of Cats Fishing in Paris. The cat drawings of artist Le Ba Dang are not just simple lines but have become a unique painting language, full of calligraphy; not simply images of animals but subtly conveying thoughts about objects and metaphysics, which is a sign of the philosophy of "being is not being" expressed by the author in the following works.

Some works of artist Le Ba Dang introduced at the exhibition

HO CHI MINH CITY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS

Besides cats, Le Ba Dang also painted horses. It can be said that horses are one of the main themes throughout his creative career. In addition to paintings, the artist also created horses using collage techniques, lithography, sculpture, etc. Le Ba Dang expressed his creativity through the use of diverse materials and techniques in prints; flexibly combining many types of materials, applying relief printing, lithography, and screen printing techniques to convey his artistic ideas. In his works, the image of the horse is very flexible, expressing the spirit of freedom and indomitability as the artist's intention: wanting to overcome limits and constraints to find absolute freedom in creation.

In 1985, Le Ba Dang created his first Espaces works. These were works on paper that combined many techniques of collage and superimposition, between sculpture and relief as a synthesis and transcendence of these two forms of expression. Le Ba Dang incorporated into his Espace works reliefs emphasized by watercolors so that they became lakes, mountains, deserts, rivers, wild and new lands, landscapes seen from above.

Along with that is a series of watercolor landscape paintings with perfect strokes and flexible and changing brushwork, he blends the woman's flesh into the scenery: study, bed, mountains, rivers, clouds, water, desert, geological strata, underground tunnels, everywhere you look you see her, she is naked in the landscape, she has melted into the landscape, she is the landscape. Therefore, nude landscape paintings are always a temptation for foxes.

EMOTIONAL RETURN

In order to honor the contributions of painter Le Ba Dang to art, after receiving the donation of works and documents of painter Le Ba Dang by Mr. and Mrs. Le Tat Luyen - Thuy Khue in France, the Ho Chi Minh City Museum of Fine Arts decided to immediately share them with the public by organizing a special exhibition of Fine Arts Works of Painter Le Ba Dang , opening on the occasion of the Lunar New Year 2024.

According to Mr. Tran Thanh Binh, Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Museum of Fine Arts: "Painter Le Ba Dang has diverse creativity; not only creating paintings with many different materials, but also demonstrating his creativity in the field of sculpture, he has created unique works, expressing profound philosophies of life and the universe. The works on the themes of cats and horses are the themes that artist Le Ba Dang has chosen to create and have left unique marks in the art world . Therefore, the return of the works before spring is full of emotions".

Exhibition content: Artist Le Ba Dang's fine art works are divided into 4 sub-themes: Sculptures of color and space; Paintings and sketches in Chinese ink on the theme of Cats and Horses ; Watercolor paintings on the theme of the Harmony of the Universe ; Prints on the theme of Flowers and Landscapes . Each theme in the exhibition is a rich collection of emotions and intelligence, a creative mark of each period and an "artistic memoir" of the artist.

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