Jakabffy Imre szerk.: Az Iparművészeti Múzeum Évkönyvei 13. (Budapest, 1971)

HOPP FERENC MÚZEUM - MUSÉE FERENC HOPP - Horváth, Tibor: Report on the Activities of the Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts in 1969 and 1970

Fig. 13. Nuynh Van Cam (born in 1922 at Tan An). North and Soutli, 1058, painting in lacquer, 45.3 X 32.3 ein. Signed in the left corner: N. (nun 58. Purchase, inv. nr.: (i0.28. Coral-red hackground partly covered either with gold lacquer or with brown colour painted with soli brush-strokes. Two young girls silling on low stools. The one, drawn in profile, is wearing a dark pair of trousers and a white blouse. Her hair is tied up with a while bandana. She holds a book or a while kerchief in her hands. All the wdiite of this painting is of eggshell pressed into lacquer as it is usual in this art. Most likely this girl represents the North. The other is painted en face looking to the left. She is dressed in a black pair of trousers and yellowish-green blouse. She holds a fan. The floor is covered with square tiles, the lines between them are refilled also with eggshell. The wooden-panel (width 0.55 cm.) is coated with black lacquer at the hack. The procedure of the lacquer painting is a long one, carried on by the painter himself. The wooden-panel is first coaled with several layers of lacquer, after each layer comes the polishing with a piece of carborundum well lilting in hand. And again during the painting this rubbing is repeated after each layer of colours. The art of lacquer painting in Vietnam goes back lo ihe lale twenties, bor the last fifteen years it is being taught in the College of line Arts in Hanoi. .Many artists turned lo this kind