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Folk paintings of Vietnam, made from popular materials: paper from Nepal paper plants, bold lines are glistening white powder ground from snail, oyster shells, red color is from half-baked bricks, yellow from "diep" flowers, black from burned bamboo leaves...

Dong Ho paintings aren't painted by artistic inspiration but printed from sample prints of folk artists, showing scenery-simple and familiar to daily pastoral living as: animals, festivals, activities… on vivid colors, plain lines and conditioning lay-out but containing much pure, upright sentiment.

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In APEC 2006 Meeting in Vietnam, sand paintings were honorably chosen and introduced to international guests as a unique artistic product of Vietnamese People.

From popular, natural material stretches along Vietnamese seacoast, a grain of sand passing artists' hands become poetic and endowed with motherland's spirit. The sophisticated, colorful paintings in glasses, crystal jars, mirror frames… show scenery, calligraphy, animals, even portraits of celebrities.

Sand paintings nowadays become more and more modern when artists use more dyed sands to show wall paintings of smart and splendid style.

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WOODGRAFT PAINTINGS

Made from wood, but not only from one kind, and quality must be the best. Artists first take great pains in searching suitable kinds of wood to suit with patterns and colors of paintings, so that they reach highest artistic effect.

Woodgraft paintings are grafted from wood pieces, carefully chosen and passed many processing stages to stick to one another and representing authors aesthetic intention, then are polished. Each painting is a fine combination of artists' clever hands and their painting art ideas to make the fruit of special art.

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Tho Cam BAMBOO PAINTINGS

Vietnam is the country of bamboo, therefore bamboo paintings are considered as products of Vietnamese souls. From small pieces, after pretreating-smoked by straws to shiny brown, soaked in lime to yellow and green and other painstaking stages, artists will join together, printing and engraving pictures to become unique products with various content: Dong Ho painting genre, four seasons, 12 animal designations, lyrical scenery, water-color paintings… Vietnamese bamboo paintings really reach artistic top, affirm value of long-standing character of the People.

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BUTTERFLY PAINTINGS

Surely nature lovers feel pleasant to have collections of butterflies, but the most valuable and attractive if owning a butterfly painting. That indulgence foster the founding and development of Vietnamese butterfly paintings.

Vietnamese butterfly paintings are grafted from a great many of slender butterfly wings, making beautiful poetic picture of country, ancient streets scenery in deep-lying thoughts…A butterfly specimen often collects many different species of butterflies, some are rare and have to be collected during due seasons. Therefore, it takes months to finish a painting. Looking at butterfly paintings, not only we admire the spirit from the painting but also the enchanting beauty of thousands of butterfly wings-masterpiece of nature.

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The development and calligraphy of Vietnamese lacquer art are really affirmed and attracted visitors all over the world when they set feet here.

Paintings of other countries often focus to show on handicraft products, but Vietnamese lacquerware is considered as painting materials, besides whetting technique is the great difference, contributing to a unique painting genre of the country.

Traditional materials to make a painting are: black lacquer, red brown paint, gilded gold, silver…, oyster, seashells, yellow flour, today added some new are: egg shells, bamboo splints…
Lacquer paintings are appreciated by meticulosity in making, their shine and depth attract admirers.

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EMBROIDERY PAINTINGS

May Tre La Vietnamese embroidery paintings are age-old artistic products and are appreciated by visitors in the world. Combining industry, fine emotion, deep and sentimental soul, the talented embroiderers through needle-work show in cube sand supple, liberal patterns.

Embroidery paintings have smart but fine beauty, therefore are appreciated by almost everyone. Sometimes it is a souvenir, but maybe solemnly hung like a precious painting, made the atmosphere more beautifully.

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GEMSTONES PAINTINGS

With gemstones exploited from mines in Vietnam, artists cleverly make beautiful and sparkling paintings. Vietnamese gemstones paintings are highly evaluated on world market because they are made of natural materials, not mixing with artificial colors, socolors are shiny and lively.

Country scenery, simple lives of Vietnamese people become sparkling, lively by clever hands of artists. Gemstones-everlasting natural precious stones shine more brightly when embedded with lives' breath. Although just appear for some years, gemstones paintings are appreciated by connoisseurs because of their smart and high-born characteristics.