Dong Ho and Hang Trong's folk paintings, collaged from silk fabric scraps, bring a new unique beauty. Even more surprising is that these pieces are created by people with disabilities.

An exhibition at Hanoi Museum is showing a combination of engraved lacquer paintings of folk themes to help preserve and develop the folk painting genre in the modern era.

Hang Trong painting, a genre of Vietnamese woodcut paintings originating in the Old Quarter in Hanoi serves as “food for the mind”. The art form had been nearly lost, but one man is trying to preserve the traditional folk painting.

For centuries, Dong Ho paintings were used as precious decorations to celebrate the Tet festival. 

Scrap fabric of tailors in Van Phuc Silk Village (Ha Dong District, Hanoi) have been turned into colorful folk paintings, thanks to the diligent skillful hands of people with disabilities.

Colourful paintings depicting Buddhism and folk paintings on small sacred fig leaves are being bought as decorations.

“Tet Vietnam Xua” (Vietnam’s Tet in the Olden Days), a collection of articles by Vietnamese and French scholars, gives readers a host of insights into the traditional holiday through its many rituals and customs.

Artist Bui Thanh Tam has been inspired by folk material to create his works and encourage his colleagues to preserve and draw attention to traditional art. 

The South Korean Cultural Centre exhibited folk paintings for the first time in Vietnam from February 19 to 25 at the cultural centre in Hanoi.

From the perspective of young artist Nguyen Xuan Lam, folk paintings proved their vitality in modern times at an exhibition of his works that is opening in downtown Hanoi.

An exhibition titled ‘Tradition meets modern’ is underway at the Vietnam Women’s Museum in Hanoi, featuring remakes of folk paintings by young artist Xuan Lam.

Traditional and contemporary Dong Ho folk paintings are being showcased at an exhibition opened at the Vietnam National Fine Arts Museum in Hanoi.

Artists have been using a variety of mediums to paint on throughout the ages, and folk paintings can often be found on the back of bamboo-woven trays. But what about using the same trays to create different works of art?

 VietNamNet Bridge – Sinh Village in Thua Thien Hue Province has made folk paintings for the central region for more than 400 years. The paintings are made by farmers during crop intervals. Sinh Village has become a popular tourist destination.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The annual Hanoi Traditional Craft Village Tourism Festival will be held at Quan Ngua Sports Palace from October 9 to 12, in celebration of the 60th anniversary of Hanoi’s Liberation Day.

An ongoing exhibition focuses on the origin and history of the two famous genres of Vietnamese folk paintings, Dong Ho and Hang Trong.

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 VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam Fine Arts Museum, in coordination with the Vietnamese Culture Centre in France, held an exhibition in Paris on July 27 to showcase Vietnamese folk paintings.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A Vietnamese folk painting exhibition recently opened at the Institute of Cultural Exchange with France (IDECAF) in HCM City.