Mai-Thu. Echo of a dreamed Vietnam. 1906-1980.
Snoeck| N° d'inventaire | 23882 |
| Format | 21 x 29 |
| Détails | 159 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Gent, 2021 |
| Etat | nine |
| ISBN | 9789461616722 |
The Ursuline Museum in Mâcon is organizing a retrospective of the work of Vietnamese artist Maï-Thu (1906-1980) from June 16 to October 14, 2021. The artist's entire career will be traced through around a hundred works.
Mai-Thu and the first Vietnamese artists: at the origin of Vietnamese painting
Maï-Thu is one of the first five graduates of the Indochina School of Fine Arts (EBAI). This higher education school, founded in 1925, is at the origin of the emergence of the notion of artist in Vietnam. Artist in the Western sense of the term, because before that, there was of course a pictorial tradition, but very different, and essentially inspired by Chinese culture. Maï-Thu is therefore one of the very first Vietnamese to have felt himself an artist, and thus, invested with the
freedom and responsibility to offer one's own perspective. Maï-Thu's art is an erudite choice.
Mai-Thu and French Indochina: propaganda art?
Maï-Thu weaves his style from a Western weft and an Eastern warp. This is the will of the founder of the EBAI, Victor Tardieu. The stated goal of the School is to call on students to forge a new Indochinese style and to give them the means to do so. Synthesis is required: it is not a question of copying the French, but of borrowing, of inventing, while remaining Vietnamese.
Maï-Thu remained faithful to this teaching throughout his life.
The Ursuline Museum in Mâcon is organizing a retrospective of the work of Vietnamese artist Maï-Thu (1906-1980) from June 16 to October 14, 2021. The artist's entire career will be traced through around a hundred works.
Mai-Thu and the first Vietnamese artists: at the origin of Vietnamese painting
Maï-Thu is one of the first five graduates of the Indochina School of Fine Arts (EBAI). This higher education school, founded in 1925, is at the origin of the emergence of the notion of artist in Vietnam. Artist in the Western sense of the term, because before that, there was of course a pictorial tradition, but very different, and essentially inspired by Chinese culture. Maï-Thu is therefore one of the very first Vietnamese to have felt himself an artist, and thus, invested with the
freedom and responsibility to offer one's own perspective. Maï-Thu's art is an erudite choice.
Mai-Thu and French Indochina: propaganda art?
Maï-Thu weaves his style from a Western weft and an Eastern warp. This is the will of the founder of the EBAI, Victor Tardieu. The stated goal of the School is to call on students to forge a new Indochinese style and to give them the means to do so. Synthesis is required: it is not a question of copying the French, but of borrowing, of inventing, while remaining Vietnamese.
Maï-Thu remained faithful to this teaching throughout his life.