Artist field note

Nguyễn Phan Chánh

Everyday rural life receives grave, lyrical attention.

Appears inVietnam
After the Bath by Nguyễn Phan Chánh
Art Institute of Chicago · Public domainSource ↗

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After the Bath

1931

Quiet gesture and earth colour give private life unusual monumentality.

The five in one idea

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