Phan Thu Trang 2 (Vietnam, 1981)

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Phan Thu Trang
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Trangs naive, decorative works are
characteristically Vietnamese. Making the genre
of landscape her own, Trang simplifies individual
elements to their bare essentials. With a limited
palette, the artist employs texture to define her
subjects. Smooth areas of bright monotone
contrast with the lush, painterly impasto used to
define tree leaves. A vibrant vaulted canopy of
trees dominates spindly trucks.
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Her works establish a form of narrative with a
solo female cyclist eternally pedaling. The
viewer knows neither from whence she came, nor
her destination. With conical hat and downcast
face she seems focuses and determined struggling
and cycling against the odds. As if caught up in
an internal race against time, the cyclist
ventures on through works representing various
daylight hours. Works in green and white are akin
to mid morning light, while works in shades of
yellow, oranges and red exude the searing heat of
the mid-afternoon sun in Vietnam.
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Born in Hanoi (1981), like many other artists,
Trangs mind has been engraved with images of the
city and the Northern villages. She brings these
vivid memories of the villagers and their life to
her paintings
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Born 1981 in Hanoi Graduated from Theatre and
Cinema University in 2004 Member of The Vietnam
Young Painter Association Exhibitions
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"oil on canvas and palette knife" To create such
fantastic landscapes of the artist takes a small
knife, a spatula (spatula) and put on canvas the
paint
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Trangs naïve, decorative works are unmistakably
Vietnamese in character. Taking the landscape as
her subject, Trang simplifies individual elements
to their bare essentials. With a limited palette,
the artist prefers the use of texture to define
her subjects.
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In her painting, Trang doesnt try to describe
what she saw but what she felt. These are
memories of the places where she lived or passed
by.
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However even a bit naive these images of
landscapes, combined with impasto technique,
caused the popularity of works and attracted the
attention of collectors from around the world
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Impasto is a technique used in painting, where
paint is laid on an area of the surface (or the
entire canvas) very thickly, usually thickly
enough that the brush or painting-knife strokes
are visible. Paint can also be mixed right on the
canvas. When dry, impasto provides texture, the
paint appears to be coming out of the canvas.
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Awards Awarded Third Prize in Childrens
Competition in 1986 Awarded Second Prize at The
Students Exhibition of The Theatre and Cinema
University in 2001
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Text and pictures Internet Copyright All the
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Sanda Foisoreanu
2015
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