More than 100 works from 'A Quiet Journey' by artist Cao Thi Duoc

On the morning of October 5, at the Ho Chi Minh City Museum of Fine Arts, female artist Cao Thi Duoc (member of the Vietnam Fine Arts Association, member of the Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts Association) had an impressive debut with more than 100 oil paintings that she painted from 1985 to present. This is her second solo exhibition, not only summarizing her years of creativity but also affirming her perseverance, optimism and love of painting that she has pursued.

Artist Cao Thi Duoc's gallery impresses with more than 100 works

Paintings by artist Cao Thi Duoc appear in many different genres and ways of expression.

Artist Cao Thi Duoc was born in 1958 in Ben Tre . She graduated from Ho Chi Minh City University of Fine Arts in 1990 and is a Master of Fine Arts - lecturer at Ho Chi Minh City University of Fine Arts. Along with many joint exhibitions at home and abroad, the female artist also has paintings in the collection of the Ho Chi Minh City Museum of Fine Arts and private collections in Japan, England, America, Korea, Singapore...

“Painting brings me a lot of happiness, helps me discover many distant horizons and especially helps me express my emotions, feelings, and even my own concepts and emotions in front of many different scenes of life and portraits of people in life,” the female artist shared.

Looking back at her artistic path with each moment marking her success, she said: “Life is always changing but painting is always an attractive mystery. As an artist, you must always move forward.”

Artist Cao Thi Duoc’s paintings appear in many different genres, materials and ways of expression: they can be chalk paintings, watercolor paintings, landscape paintings, paintings of young women, paintings of daily life, still life paintings… No matter what the subject matter, she is always devoted to each “brainchild” she gave birth to. In particular, her paintings of daily life are always simple and genuine.

Female artist Cao Thi Duoc speaks at the opening ceremony

"I paint to express my emotions, like memories in pictures," the female artist confided.

Audience coming to the exhibition

About the exhibition "Quietly a journey" , artist Cao Thi Duoc confided: "Time passes quickly, I still quietly live with the colors and emotions of the days. It could be the image of a girl with a fruit cart walking in the rain on the streets of Saigon - Ho Chi Minh City, or sometimes I feel sorry looking at a mother and her child making a living on a flower cart, and even the image of myself picking up my child in the rain on a flooded afternoon. I paint to express my emotions, like memories in paintings and I don't know since when, the colors follow the years like whispers to my father, to my mother and memories of the reformed opera paintings are born again. In addition, I also record in paintings the beautiful scenes of my hometown as I dreamed of since I was a child, I like to paint and paint what I love: paint my son, paint the moonlit night, paint the sunset and paint old dreams...".

The exhibition "A Quiet Journey" by artist Cao Thi Duoc takes place at the Ho Chi Minh City Museum of Fine Arts (97A Pho Duc Chinh, Nguyen Thai Binh Ward , District 1) until October 9.

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