Exhibition of 700 works by artist Huynh Phuong Dong

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of national reunification, the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Indochina College of Fine Arts (1925 - 2025) and the 100th anniversary of the birth of painter Huynh Phuong Dong (1925 - 2015), on the morning of March 15 in Ho Chi Minh City, the exhibition series in 'Huynh Phuong Dong Journey' organized by the family of painter Huynh Phuong Dong and SANN - The House of Art opened its first leg at the Ho Chi Minh City Museum of Fine Arts.

Selected from more than 3,000 works by artist Huynh Phuong Dong, this is the artist's largest exhibition ever, displaying more than 700 works at the following locations: Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts Museum, Vietnam Fine Arts Museum (April 10); Ho Chi Minh City Exhibition Hall (March 20) and at a special location (to be announced later, expected on April 22).

The name of painter Huynh Phuong Dong is associated with works about resistance and revolutionary propaganda, but when coming to the Huynh Phuong Dong Journey exhibition series, viewers realize a diverse and multifaceted Huynh Phuong Dong, from wartime landscape sketches to peacetime landscape sketches - building the country, from people in war, through war and returning to daily life, from trips across Vietnam to trips to many countries in the world , from formal portraits to nude paintings... He devoted his whole life to painting, and at the same time was always conscious of preserving his works, so today art lovers have the opportunity to admire his interesting painting journey.

On this occasion, his family also released the book series Huynh Phuong Dong's Journey, introducing more than 2,500 works throughout the talented artist's tireless working life.

Artist Huynh Phuong Dong

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The painting "The Cu Chi Guerrilla" by Huynh Phuong Dong in 1965

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