Ha Phuong’s painting entitled Happiness (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) -A solo exhibition entitled Green Dreams by 10-year-oldartist Nguyen Ha Phuong is being held at the Vietnam Fine Arts Museumuntil September 17.
Phuong is the youngest artist to hold a solo show at the prestigiousmuseum.
The fifth-grade student at Nguyen Tat Thanh primary school in Hanoi has paintednearly 100 paintings, and is exhibiting 85. The paper and canvas paintingsdepict her dreams, and love of life and nature.
“She showed an aptitude for painting at a young age and it’s so good that shegot the support of her family to develop this talent,” said Vi Kien Thanh,head of the Fine Arts, Photography and ExhibitionDepartment under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
No one in her family paints, but by the age of five she was already paintingnature, animals, relatives and friends. She said she preferred drawingnature because she found it hard to draw human beings, which require manydetails. She particularly loved Van Gogh’s paintings. “Hispainting Tournesol inspired me a lot,” she confided.
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“I love painting. I want to be a painter. I do not want to work as an officeworker and spend my whole time in an office with air-conditioning,” she said.
Her mother Kim Hoa recalls that when her daughter’s teacher Nguyen TuanSon advised her to display her painting at an exhibition, the family was veryhesitant.
“We do not have artistic traditions in the family, but my daughter lovesdrawing and painting. We only want to offer her an opportunity to develop herartistic taste,” she said.
“We consider this exhibition a gift for our daughter to preserve her bestchildhood memories. We do not have any other ambitions,” she added.-VNA
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