Artist field note

Nguyễn Phan Chánh

Everyday rural life receives grave, lyrical attention.

Appears inVietnam

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Playing the Game of Squares

1931

Children absorbed in a traditional game become a study in concentration and social rhythm.

The five in one idea

Nguyễn Phan Chánh made silk painting a modern language for Vietnamese lives overlooked by grand history.