Dương Văn Đen (21 October 1919 – 1988) was a Vietnamese painter. Văn Đen was born in Cần Thơ and many of his works feature rural subjects and areas reminiscent of his childhood in South Vietnam. He did not study at the École des Beaux-Arts de l'Indochine but in France from 1950 to 1953, after which he returned to Vietnam and was considered part of the EBAI tradition.[1] He was also a member of the Young Vietnamese Artists Association.
Văn Đen painted using an impressionistic style and was considered to be a bridge between conventional and more liberal styles of art. In 1960, he won a gold medal in the 1960 Spring Award of Painting content for Two Medical Pots.[2]
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- ^ Tony Day, Maya H. T. Liem Cultures at War: The Cold War and Cultural Expression in Southeast Asia 2010 Page 88 "The established traditions of EBAI prevailed through the late 1950s to early 1960s... especially marked among those graduates who later formed the Society of Saigonese Young Artists. ... who were deeply rooted traditionalists, included artists such as Tú Duyên, Nguyễn Anh, Nguyễn Siên, and Lưu Đình Khải, as well as graduates from France like Nguyễn Khoa Toàn, Đào Sĩ Chu, Văn Đen, Nguyễn Sao and Trần Quang Hiếu, to mention a few.
- ^ Liem, Maya H. T.; Day, Tony (2018). Cultures at War : The Cold War and Cultural Expression in Southeast Asia. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. ISBN 9781501721205.
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