Nguyễn Sỹ Ngọc
Nguyễn Sỹ Ngọc (6 April 1919 - 25 December 1990 in Hanoi) was a Vietnamese painter. He was notable among painters for subversive political stances. After 1944 he was a faculty member at the renamed EBAI, Hanoi University of Fine Arts, but for his participation in the journal Nhân Văn he spent 1957–1959 in a re-education camp.
Nguyễn Sỹ Ngọc
- Born
- 1919 · Hanoi.
- Died
- 1990 · Hanoi.
- Nationality
- Vietnam
- Occupation
- painter · journalist
- Honours
- Hồ Chí Minh Prize
- Languages
- Vietnamese
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Nguyễn Sỹ Ngọc (6 April 1919 - 25 December 1990 in Hanoi) was a Vietnamese painter. He was notable among painters for subversive political stances. After 1944 he was a faculty member at the renamed EBAI, Hanoi University of Fine Arts, but for his participation in the journal Nhân Văn he spent 1957–1959 in a re-education camp.
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After his release, until his retirement in 1983 he was an executive on the Arts Committee.
• Cái bát "Bowl of water" • L'Amitié entre l'armée et le peuple, 1951
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- 1.Nora A. Taylor Painters in Hanoi: an ethnography of Vietnamese art 2009- Page 32 " Nguyen Sy Ngoc (1919-1990; student at the EBAI 1939-1944) is remembered by fellow students to have been an excellent draftsman. As a result of having objected in the mid-1950s to a Communist Party policy restricting freedom of expression, he is never credited in art history books printed before 1990 as having produced any significant works during the colonial period." Page 75 "Bui Xuan Phai, Nguyen Sang, Nguyen Tu Nghiem, and Duong Bich Lien were not the most subversive of painters; others, such as Nguyen Sy Ngoc, and the poet Tran Dan, were put into much more strenuous positions vis-avis the political ..."
- 2.La question de l'art en Asie orientale - Page 357 Flora Blanchon - 2008 "Nguyen Sy Ngoc (promotion 1939-1944) réalise L'Amitié entre l'armée et le peuple, 1951 (ill. 23) avec l'emploi de couleurs similaires rouges, bruns et or qui accentuent l'effet dramatiques de la scène."
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