Back to ‘Green’ nature with Nguyen Thuy Huong

A painting exhibition called Mau Xanh (Green) by artist Nguyen Thuy Huong opened at Applied Arts Gallery, 5 Phan Dang Luu Street in HCMC’s Binh Thanh District.
The exhibition features 32 large paintings made in oil, acrylic and tempera on panel, marking a creative period of the artist from 2007 to now. The works are full of emotion with many flowers, fruits and young ladies.
Visitors will have a chance to contemplate the wild mo flower of the Tay Bac uplands, persimmon gardens at harvest in the Central Highlands city of Dalat and twining lianas hanging over the edge of Hoan Kiem Lake in Hanoi. “The works were inspired from recent travels to those regions and I want viewers to have some minutes with nature to appreciate natural beauty that is sometimes neglected by daily worries,” said Huong.
Green is the dominant color but most works use many bright colors. “This is comfortable, relaxing, gentle as a wonderland of flowers, trees and fruits in combination with the beauty of Vietnamese ladies, making me forget the troubles of daily life and feel peaceful,” said Quyen, a student of HCMC Fine Arts University.
Visitors can also sense the contrast between life and death via reverse colors such as green and gray, red and black, and between open space and narrow space via the sizes of the objects depicted in the paintings. “Natural space is becoming narrow due to industrial projects and the environment is damaged by urban development as well as by human ambition and lack of conscience,” said Huong, adding that she wanted to call for public awareness on environment protection. The event runs till March 25.