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Landscape
c. 1950
Traditional material carries an increasingly spacious and abstract sense of place.
Artist field note
Nguyễn Gia Trí
Lacquer becomes a modern field of depth, light and national imagination.
Appears inVietnam
The five in one idea
Nguyễn Gia Trí elevated lacquer from craft convention into one of Vietnamese modernism's most ambitious forms.