Bui Xuan Phai was a Vietnamese painter. He is famous for the paintings of Hanoi Old Quarter. The best known of all Vietnamese modern painters, Bui Xuan Phai is respected and admired for both his art and moral character. He epitomizes for the Vietnamese the lone artist suffering for his art: he lost his teaching position at the Hanoi College of Fine Arts in 1957 for supporting a movement for political and cultural freedom and was not allowed to show his work in public until a solo exhibition in 1984.However, he was awarded posthumously Ho Chi Minh prize in 1996, the highest national prize in Vietnam.
 


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Bui Xuan Phai (1920-1988) was one of the most remarkable, most charming and most unusual figures of Vietnamese modern art. When he graduated from Frenchcreated Ecole des Beaux Arts d'Indochine in Hanoi (1925-1945), the world art was in its post-war period, one of drastic differentiation, Picasso, Mastisse, Leger already ranked among the classical masters. Europe gave full blast to the trend of lyrical abstractionism and America to that of expressionist one. All that was taken in by Bui Xuan Phai, by his heart's eye. And be managed to find his own dimension in the strict framework of the society and later, his art, like an underground water spring, spread far and wide and even impregnated alien souls with his sincerity.

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Bùi Xuân Phái (1920-1988) sinh và mất tại Hà Nội, Việt Nam, ông tốt nghiệp trường Cao Đẳng Mỹ Thuật Đông Dương năm 1946. Là họa sĩ có số tác phẩm đồ sộ với nhiều thể loại và đề tài khác nhau, nhưng nổi tiếng nhất là những tranh vẽ phố cổ Hà Nội, tranh Chèo, Khỏa thân,Cảnh quê, tranh vẽ Miền biển... Ông vẽ trên vải, trên giấy, trên bảng gỗ, thậm chí cả trên giấy báo khi không có đủ nguyên liệu. Ông dùng nhiều phương tiện hội họa khác nhau như sơn dầu, màu nước, phấn mầu, ch́ than, bút ch́ v.v... Các tác phẩm của ông biểu hiện sâu xa linh hồn người Việt, tính cách nhân bản và ḷng yêu chuộng tư do, óc hài hước đậm nét bi ai và khốn khổ.

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