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Washing Vegetables by the Pond
1931
Ordinary labour settles into a balanced exchange between bodies, water and landscape.
Artist field note
Nguyễn Phan Chánh
Everyday rural life receives grave, lyrical attention.
Appears inVietnam
The five in one idea
Nguyễn Phan Chánh made silk painting a modern language for Vietnamese lives overlooked by grand history.