TITLE:
Some Characteristics and Trends of Wood Engraving Paintings in Ho Chi Minh City from 1986 to Now
AUTHORS:
Doan Minh Ngoc
KEYWORDS:
Characteristics, Trends of Wood Engraving Paintings, Tradition, Innovation
JOURNAL NAME:
Art and Design Review,
Vol.11 No.2,
May
30,
2023
ABSTRACT: The art of woodcarving in Ho Chi Minh City since 1986 has reflected a
vivid reality of land in a vibrant historical
period with renovation and development. Woodblock paintings in Ho Chi
Minh City show a characteristic of Ho Chi
Minh City’s culture which is the dynamism and diversity in tolerating new things from the form of
expression to adaptation and development. On the other hand, images,
language, and penmanship with simple expressiveness, close to social reality
can also be considered as another feature in Ho Chi Minh City woodcut paintings. A common feature is that almost
all Ho Chi Minh City woodblock
painters during this period experimented with many different trends: the
tendency to preserve traditional values, the tendency to innovate, and the realistic tendency. The above compositional trends
will be analyzed in the following article.