Nguyen Quang Minh (1970)

The attraction of shaping lovely charaters as dolls in Nguyen Quang Minh’s paintings is highlighted because of their features such as: small eyes, tails, willow leaves which make the viewers can not stop staring. The rural girls are oustanding with flexible moves such as: dancing, taking the flute or a bunch of flowers on their hands; these girls are gentle and elegant like urban girls or poetry and romantic like the faries in the folk stories. The background color in each painting always changes clearly, the color in the magic space – a non-contextual space but fulled of emtions. The artist’s brushstrokes show a lovely rebel combined with a smooth influence from folk drawings and illustration pictures to create a very unique “naïve” art style. Nguyen Quang Minh was born and grown up in the 70s of the twentieth century. Like the writers and artists of his generation, his childhood was linked to the rural life topic: the fields, the buffalos enjoyably and slowly eating the green grass, the green trees, the realistic landscapes and scenic in his mind. In particular, the sound of flutes are emphasized in many art works as a reminiscene in the endless world. Each time the viewers enjoy watching paintings of the artist Nguyen Quang Minh, it is also a chance for each person to see an imagine that has passed away but now maybe it has just stayed in our mind.