Thái Hà
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Nguyễn Như Huân, known later in life as Thái Hà (18 December 1922 - 12 October 2005), was a celebrated Vietnamese lacquer artist whose career spanned the First Indochina War and the Second Indochina War.[1] His principal teachers at the École des Beaux-Arts de l’Indochine were Joseph Inguimberty and Tô Ngọc Vân.[2]
From 1964 until 1975, he was commissioned by the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) government to set up and manage the liberty art department in South Vietnam. During this time, he lived and worked in South Vietnam's southern provinces, particularly Cà Mau, organising art classes for the National Liberation Front (NLF) and the People's Liberation Armed Forces of South Vietnam (PLAF). He also created many sketches and paintings of the daily lives of villagers and soldiers. Due to the secrecy of this work, it was at this time that he changed his name to Thái Hà.[3]
His works became some of the most widely published images of the Vietnam War by North Vietnamese artists, along side others such as Huỳnh Phương Đông, Trang Phượng and Nguyễn Thanh Châu.[4]
References
- ^ "Biography: Nguyễn Như Huân". Nguyễn Như Huân.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Thái Hà Biography". Vietnam: The Art of War.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Buchanan-Spurgin, Sherry (2008). Mekong Diaries: Drawings and Stories from the American-Vietnam War 1964-1975. London: Asia Ink. p. 61. ISBN 9780953783915.
- ^ "Thái Hà (1922 – 2005)". Witness Collection.
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