Let's discover the history of Dong Ho Painting, the process of painting a picture and the reason it become a heritage of Vietnam.
DONG HO PAINTING – THE HISTORY
Dong Ho Painting is also called Tet Painting, because in Tet holiday, the paintings is often sold at the rural markets. People buy them not only for decorate their house, the colors of the paintings brilliant like fireworks, happies and dreams of people in early year.
Rich
The theme of Dong Ho Painting very much. It’s can be about good wishes as “ The Chickens” to hope everyone will have many descendant, the child hugging the chicken “Honor”, hugging the duck “Rich”. Some painting about normal life for example: “Catching coconut”, “Pastor”, “Hide and seek” (Bịt mắt bắt dê) ...; the painting about historical character as Trieu Thi Trinh, Ngo Quyen, Phu Dong Thien Vuong... to the stories: Kieu story, Thach Sanh... There are also some worship painting.
Catch coconut
Dong Ho Painting is studied by many artists and professionals in Vietnam and on the world. It have a beauty of folk art: simple and close. It carries the soul of the nation that is immortal with the time. Standing in front of a painting of Dong Ho, understanding about the reason it exits as well as its innocent meaning, viewer will be touched.
HOW TO MAKE A PAINTING?
Dong Ho Paintings are engraved on wooden planks, first of all a stroke, then how many colors, then how many more color. Painting is wind paper (made of wind bark) spread on a silver color (a kind of scallop shell).
Trieu Thi Trinh
To complete a painting, the artist spend a lot of time. There must be some professional artisans making ink and paper from natural materials around the area, as well as molding and printing.
The paper is produced by handmade It will be cut into many size, the smallest is 11cm x 12cm, the biggest is 11cm x 12cm.
The colors of Dong Ho painting very much, mostly from natural or traditional color. Each color has a distinct meaning: yellow (from luscius flower) is represents the fullness, green (from malaleuca tree) is the bamboo’s color, red (from gac fruit) represents a bib, black (from bamboo coat) like the skirt in Quan Ho festival...
The paper is produced by handmade It will be cut into many size, the smallest is 11cm x 12cm, the biggest is 11cm x 12cm.
The colors of Dong Ho painting very much, mostly from natural or traditional color. Each color has a distinct meaning: yellow (from luscius flower) is represents the fullness, green (from malaleuca tree) is the bamboo’s color, red (from gac fruit) represents a bib, black (from bamboo coat) like the skirt in Quan Ho festival...
Pastor
The paper is handcrafted from bark and is covered with a scallop shell. Even the brushes used to spread paper and prints are made of spruce leaves. Paintings are painted on the wood engraving, one by one and then pressed on the paper. Painting is dried after each three or five color.
After the painting, even in the dry, the viewer still feel the color of the picture as fresh as wet. The cubes, placed next to each other, naturally harmonize. In recent years, some people have used some colors and modern chemicals in their paintings, so the products have increased but the color of the paintings is not as sharp as traditional paintings. So, in a short time the colors are fading.
THE BEAUTY OF DONG HO PAINTING
Mouse's wedding
The works of Dong Ho Painting not only from Creating art is not from inspiration in composition. Each print represents a philosophical fable or legend, a colorful message of morality and deep conviction. Beside that, Dong Ho Painting show everyone about the atmosphere of Lunar New Year: happy, lucky, prosperous and gather.
Dong Ho Painting is also very skillful in describing the meaning of animals. The animals that stick with the country such as chicken, buffalo, pig or dragon... are the symbol of happy, rich, hark work, smart or brave... We can see the comments about life and society by Dong Ho Painting, for example “Mouse’s wedding” that show us the bad habits of feudalism period deeply and humorously.
Dong Ho Painting is also very skillful in describing the meaning of animals. The animals that stick with the country such as chicken, buffalo, pig or dragon... are the symbol of happy, rich, hark work, smart or brave... We can see the comments about life and society by Dong Ho Painting, for example “Mouse’s wedding” that show us the bad habits of feudalism period deeply and humorously.
Dong Ho Painting is saved very good by using board to print. In order to have the inscriptions reached the level of sophistication, there must have the artists paint model picture and they must be talented and have mind, especially about technique. Perhaps printing a painting is not difficult because everyone can paint the board and print.
Dong Ho Painting do not follow the complicated rules of modern art (physics, law of light, law of distance). The artist often use approximate method, with the simple brushstroke, describing through color. That make we feed interesting but also reasonable when we see the paintings of Dong Ho village. Dong Ho Panting in particular and folk painting in general have become a heritage and pride to Vietnamese people.
Dong Ho Painting do not follow the complicated rules of modern art (physics, law of light, law of distance). The artist often use approximate method, with the simple brushstroke, describing through color. That make we feed interesting but also reasonable when we see the paintings of Dong Ho village. Dong Ho Panting in particular and folk painting in general have become a heritage and pride to Vietnamese people.
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