Pham Luc artist - Dreaming

Name of art work: Dreaming

Material: Oil on canvas
Size 100 x 100 cm
Painted: 2003
Detailed: An original Pham Luc art work on canvas with abstract style, a  girl with dreams

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Dreaming- a Pham Luc art work

Dreaming- a Pham Luc art work
 

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Pham Luc artist and a foreign art collector
Many of his art works has been collecting by professional art collectors (Vietnama and Oversea)
Pham Luc artist is the only Vietnamese artist who has his own art collectors club with over 100 members in Vietnam (many of them are
$ Billionair, Ministers, Business people )


Painted on the rice sack during the war years to make him become a very unique and special artists too

Pham Luc - Soldier Artist

From 1959 to early 1966, Lực was based in the Trường Sơn mountains. He then travelled from Military Zone 4 to Quảng Trị on a teaching and fact-finding tour. As a young soldier in the army, Lực painted on jute bags due to the lack of art materials in the country at the time; the same jute bags that carried rice, sugar, dried fish and salt to soldiers and civilians all over Vietnam. He often used pastel colours to paint as well as wall whitening powder and toothpaste for white highlights. When he could find it, Lực also made use of Chinese ink. His greatest motive was to capture the realism of what was around him instead of the heroic idealisation of soldiers. Lực continued to paint on jute bags using improvised materials until as late as 1975 and the liberation of Vietnam.

 


Mr. John Kerry to visit Pham Luc studio and collected his art works too 

Lực spent thirty-five years in the army reaching the rank of Major. He fought in North and South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. This included hot-spots like Thanh Hóa Bridge, Vĩnh Linh District in Quảng Trị Province, the Central Highlands and southern Laos. Lực always carried an artist’s kit in his rucksack to sketch and record his experiences.

The picture above is a still life, one of the literally thousands of paintings Phạm Lực has produced over the years. If you are in Hà Nội and have the chance, you can visit the artist at his home, and perhaps even have your portrait painted by him. He has become something of a celebrity in the northern art scene, something of a living legend. Ambassadors from other countries own his works.

Pham luc artist (on left) with art collector Phuc Pham (on right), next is his daughter Mrs Yen Huong

A Pham Luc art work (in  Pham Phuc private art collection)

After retiring from the army in 1993, he worked as a prolific, full-time artist in his studio in Hanoi. After separating from his first wife, he married a French woman whom he had met in the early-90s. Lực quickly attracted a loyal following who admired his intensely accurate portrayal of Vietnamese culture, folklore and identity. At an exhibition in October 1999, the poet Vũ Mão remarked, “His painting leaves something very light in the viewer’s mind and this makes them continue to mediate.”

Mr Ben Wilkinson, a member of the Harvard Kennedy School Vietnam Program, said: “I think Phạm Lực is a real talent, with a very unique and deep understanding of Vietnamese culture.”

This is one of the outstanding of Pham Luc art work on the rice sack, it was painted during a hard time.
it can be named " the Sorrow of War" with a veteran and his child at front of big -bright hozison, its just so impressed.
 

In a land which reveres patriots, Phạm Lực occupies a particularly hallowed position among the pantheon of heroes: he served in the North Vietnamese army as a painter-propagandist, using art not just as a witness, but as a weapon. The said, his paintings don’t appear particularly militaristic: nudes, still lifes and pastoral idylls are among his most common motifs. While the Americans and other counter-revolutionary foe(rce)s that he confronted brandished state-of-the-art cameras to record their side of the war, Phạm had to make do with good old-fashioned paint, canvas and brush. When canvas dried up, he reverted to painting on burlap rice sacks..
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