Unraveling The Uniqueness of Vietnamese Lacquer Art

Vietnam art is one among the many art traditions, which has absorbed multiple influences without sacrificing its uniqueness. The history of Vietnamese art and painting narrates an elaborate tale of influences, especially the Chinese and French of the colonial period. Surviving these influences, Vietnamese art has emerged from dormancy and is once again seeing the limelight, especially in France and other European countries. Vietnamese paintings in lacquer have played a major role in the sustenance of the entire tradition of Vietnamese art and paintings. Vietnamese lacquer art works date back to more than two thousand years. Lacquered items found in ancient tombs in Vietnam, date as far back as the third and fourth centuries B.C. The first instances of lacquer work in View the rest of this article