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Landscape of Vietnam
c. 1940
Gold, eggshell and dark lacquer transform landscape into luminous memory.
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.