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Streaming: Fish and Brown is a mixed-media work that symbolises the environment.
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Musical collage: Guitar and Violin (2009), oil-on-acrylic, by Uyen Huy. | |
HCM CITY — Abstract artist Huynh Van Muoi has displayed 62 paintings at an exhibition in HCM City.
The number represents the age of Uyen Huy, Muoi's pseudonym, who taught at the City's Fine Arts College for almost 36 years.
Tren Nhung Thang Ngay Da Qua (On the Bygone Days), his ninth solo exhibition, is meant to express his gratitude to teachers, colleagues, and friends who ignited the love for art in him, he says.
It is also a look back at the time he spent studying and teaching at the school until his recent retirement.
But his work will go on, he promises: "There is no retirement from the field of art. Artists have to work until they cannot move."
Most of the semi-abstracts and abstracts on display are on subjects like preserving land and water, honouring famous cultural and historical personalities, and the country's major construction projects and beautiful sights.
Teenage girls and violins are a constant presence in his works. He explains it by saying that human beauty is a central theme of art while he personally loves music and the violin.
Music is an aural art while painting is visual, he says, explaining that he hopes to invoke a sense of rhythm and melody in beholders through the images and colours in his works.
The exhibition will go on until Friday.
Huy graduated from the Sai Gon National College of Fine Arts in 1971 and then stayed on to teach there.
He has held more than 60 exhibitions in Viet Nam and displayed his works at 18 public exhibitions in France, the US, Germany, Japan, South Korea, the Netherlands, Hongkong, Thailand, Singapore, and other places — VNS