Tô Ngọc Vân

Girl with flower

Tô Ngọc Vân (15 December 1906 or 1908 – 17 June 1954), also known as Tô Tử, was a Vietnamese painter. Several of his works hang in the Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts.[1][2] He taught a resistance art class in the northern zone during the war with the French, and died as the result of injuries received at the Battle of Điện Biên Phủ.[3] He was among the first recipients of the Ho Chi Minh Prize in 1996.

He worked as painting teacher in Bưởi school, professor at the École des Beaux-Arts de l’Indochine and principal of the Việt Bắc Art School and has had significant influence on a whole generation of artists in Vietnam.[4]

Vân contributed to the magazines of Tự Lực văn đoàn ("Self-Strengthening literary group") by drawing cartoons on current events, social issues, and everyday live.[5]

The To Ngoc Van (crater) on Mercury was named in his honour.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Tác phả̂m mỹ thuật sưu tập của bảo tàng mỹ thuật Việt Nam Bảo tàng mỹ thuật Việt Nam - 2002 "The sketches of the land reform, Vietnamese soldiers, the North-West region, the route of military campaigns, etc. made by Tô Ngọc Vân- the talented artist of the previous romantic trend marked a change in his work."
  2. ↑ Bảo tàng mỹ thuật Việt Nam Trọng Thiềm Cao - 1999 "artist Tô Ngọc Vân became an artistic and cultural centre of the revolutionary base. ... Trần Văn Cẩn's woodcut “Let's join the army" (1949) and silk painting “You've made a mistake in reading, my child", Tô Ngoc Vân's series of paintings on the ..."
  3. ↑ Mark Philip Bradley (2009). Vietnam at War'. p. 63. He oversaw the establishment of the state's school for the arts in the northern resistance zone during the French war. […] the school and its artists produced paintings, posters, stamps, and other visual emblems for the Vietnamese state and its […]
  4. ↑ Lý Trực Dũng (2010). Biếm họa Việt Nam. Hanoi: NXB Mỹ Thuật. p. 38.
  5. ↑ Lý Trực Dũng (2010). Biếm họa Việt Nam. Hanoi: NXB Mỹ Thuật. p. 39.
  6. ↑ NASA "To Ngoc Van was named in 2009 in honor of the 20th century Vietnamese painter"
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